Performance and Scalability: SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Benchmarks

Microsoft and Unisys are the first to publish TPC-E benchmark results
The new TPC Benchmark™ is an On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload developed by the Transaction Processing Performance Council. TPC-E is the successor to the venerable, but now 15 year old, TPC-C benchmark. TPC-E models an OLTP environment that is broadly representative of modern OLTP systems.

SQL Server 2005 Sets Record for Data Warehousing Performance on Microsoft Windows
SQL Server 2005 achieved the #1 price/performance result for 3-terabyte TPC-H non-clustered benchmark. This is a record breaking TPC-H three-terabyte benchmark for a database running on Microsoft Windows and an HP Integrity rx8640 Server. The recent TPC-H benchmark study with HP demonstrates how Microsoft SQL Server is able to deliver enterprise scalability and performance, enabling our customers to run large-scale, mission critical applications with the best price/performance. This result is twice that of previous SQL Server benchmarks achieved for the launch of SQL Server 2005, demonstrating that SQL Server continues to push the performance envelope. Furthermore, SQL Server 2005 outperformed the previous best result on Windows with a performance of 60,359 QphH@3TB (queries per hour) compared to the previous record of 37,813 with a much better price/performance of $32.60 compared to $38.00.*

^{* TPC results as of 5/21/07. HP Integrity rx8640 (with SQL Server), 60359 QphH@3TB, 32.60 $/QphH@3TB, available 5/21/07. HP Integrity rx8640 (with Oracle), 37813 QphH@3TB, 38.00 $/QphH@3TB, available 5/14/07. Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council ( www.tpc.org).}

SQL Server delivers scalability for e-commerce, data warehousing, and line-of-business solutions.

The following tables summarize a selection of SQL Server Enterprise Edition benchmark results for various applications and workloads. To learn more, click the application name for the benchmark. The benchmarks are divided into the following categories: Industry Standard, E-Business, Financial, and Customer Relationship Management.

Industry Standard

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Line-of-Business Applications

For more information on Microsoft Windows benchmark results, see Windows Server 2003 Benchmarks.

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