SQL Server 2014 sets world record breaking performance according to TPC benchmarks

On April 16, the industry standard organization for performance benchmarking, TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council), verified that Microsoft SQL Server 2014 broke the world record for the On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload with the TPC-E and broke multiple world records for Data warehousing (DW) with the TPC-H

Highlights:

  • Microsoft and HP breaks the 10TB TPC-H DW benchmark toppling Oracle on both performance (query-per-hour) and price/performance using SQL Server 2014 with in-memory columnstore

  • Microsoft and HP breaks the 3TB TPC-H DW benchmark toppling Oracle on both performance (query-per-hour) and price/performance using SQL Server 2014 with in-memory columnstore

  • Microsoft and IBM breaks the 1TB TPC-H DW benchmark on performance (query-per-hour)

  • Microsoft and Fujitsu breaks the previously held TPC-E OLTP world record using SQL Server 2014

  • In-memory OLTP performance proof points are available from IBM, LSI and Fusion-io.