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What Is TPC
Overview
Mission
The TPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry.
Scope
The term transaction is often applied to a wide variety of business and computer functions. Looked at as a computer function, a transaction could refer to a set of operations including disk read/writes, operating system calls, or some form of data transfer from one subsystem to another.
While TPC benchmarks certainly involve the measurement and evaluation of computer functions and operations, the TPC regards a transaction as it is commonly understood in the business world: a commercial exchange of goods, services, or money. A typical transaction, as defined by the TPC, would include the updating to a database system for such things as inventory control (goods), airline reservations (services), or banking (money).
In these environments, a number of customers or service representatives input and manage their transactions via a terminal or desktop computer connected to a database. Typically, the TPC produces benchmarks that measure transaction processing (TP) and database (DB) performance in terms of how many transactions a given system and database can perform per unit of time, e.g., transactions per second or transactions per minute.
Benchmark Status Report — Mailing List
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TPC Membership Applications
Full Membership
Full Members of the TPC participate in all aspects of the TPC's work, including development of benchmark standards and setting strategic direction. Full Membership costs $15,000 per calendar year. Click here for the Full Membership Application.
Associate Membership
Certain organizations may joing the TPC as Associate Members. Associate Members may attend TPC meetings, but are not eligible to vote or hold office. Associate Membership costs $1500 per calendar year and is only available to the following types of organizations: non-profit, educational institutions, market researchers, publishers, consultants, governments, businesses who do not create, market or sell computer products or services. Click here for the Associate Membership Application.
Contact the TPC
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Email: info@tpc.org
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