Transaction Processing Performance Council

Formation	1988
Type	Not-for-profit
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, USA
Membership	Hardware and software vendors, market researchers, educational institutions, consultants
Website	www.tpc.org

Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1988 to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry. TPC benchmarks are used in evaluating the performance of computer systems; the results are published on the TPC web site.

Conference Series

In 2009 the TPC initiated an International Technology Conference Series on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking. It is a leading forum for industry experts and researcher to debate and develop innovative techniques for evaluation, measurement and characterization of modern application systems. This included the following events:

• TPCTC 2009, in conjunction with VLDB 2009 on August 24, 2009 in Lyon, France.^[1][2][3]
• TPCTC 2010, in conjunction with VLDB 2010 on September 17, 2010 in Singapore.^[4][5]
• TPCTC 2011, in conjunction with VLDB 2011 on August 29, 2011 in Seattle, Washington.^[6]
• TPCTC 2012, in conjunction with VLDB 2012 on August 27, 2012 in Istanbul,Turkey.^[7]
• TPCTC 2013, in conjunction with VLDB 2013 on August 26, 2013 in Trento, Italy.^[8]
• TPCTC 2014, in conjunction with VLDB 2014 on September 5, 2014 in Hangzhou, China.^[9]

Current Standards

• TPC-C - On-line transaction processing (since 1992)^[10][11]
• TPC-H - Ad-hoc decision support system (since 1999)
• TPC-E - Complex on-line transaction processing (since 2006)
• TPC-DS - Complex decisions support system (since 2011)^[12]
• TPC-DI - Data integration (since 2013)
• TPCx-HS - Industry's first standard for benchmarking Big Data (Hadoop) systems (since 2014)^[13]

Obsolete Standards

• TPC-A - Measures performance in update-intensive database environments typical in on-line transaction processing applications. (Obsolete as of June 6, 1995)
• TPC-App - An application server and web services benchmark.
• TPC-B - Measures throughput in terms of how many transactions per second a system can perform. (Obsolete as of June 6, 1995)
• TPC-D - Represents a broad range of decision support applications that require complex, long running queries against large complex data structures. (Obsolete as of April 6, 1999)
• TPC-R - A business reporting, decision support benchmark. (Obsolete as of January 1, 2005)
• TPC-W - A transactional web e-Commerce benchmark. (Obsolete as of April 28, 2005)

References

1. "Transaction Processing Performance Council Announces Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking". News release. April 8, 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
2. "First TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2009)". Conference Website. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
3. "Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking". Book. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
4. "Transaction Processing Performance Council Announces Second Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking". News release. April 27, 2010. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
5. "Second TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2010)". Conference Website. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
6. "Third TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2011)". Conference website. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
7. "Fourth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2012)".
8. "Fifth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2013)". Conference website. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
9. "Sixth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2014)". Conference website. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
10. "The Benchmark Handbook".
11. "Transaction Performance vs. Moore’s Law: A Trend Analysis".
12. "The Making of TPC-DS".
13. "Introducing TPCx-HS: The First Industry Standard for Benchmarking Big Data Systems".

References

• Official website
• Performance Characterization and Benchmarking: Traditional to Big Data, R. Nambiar, M. Poess (Eds.), Springer 2015
• Performance Characterization and Benchmarking, R. Nambiar, M. Poess (Eds.), Springer 2014
• Selected Topics in Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, R. Nambiar, M. Poess (Eds.), Springer 2013
• Topics in Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization, R. Nambiar, M. Poess (Eds.), Springer 2012
• Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Complex Systems, R. Nambiar, M. Poess (Eds.), Springer 2011
• Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, R. Nambiar, M. Poess (Eds.), Springer 2010
• The Benchmark Handbook, Jim Gray (Ed.), 1992