Definition
A nonprofit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry
Historical Background
Originally formed in 1988, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a nonprofit corporation focused on defining database processing benchmarks and disseminating objective, verifiable performance data to the IT industry. The TPC was originally founded in response to a growing trend at the time, known as “benchmarketing.” Effectively, this was a common practice of vendors publishing unverifiable claims based on their own price and performance data in order to present their systems in the best possible way to improve the market’s perception of their product.
“Benchmarketing” effectively enabled vendors to exaggerate performance and even reliability claims in order to boost sales. The need for a...
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Poess, M., Nambiar, R. (2018). TPC. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63962-8_319-1
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