@article{gray2005a,
author = {Gray, Jim},
title = {A Measure of Transaction Processing 20 Years Later},
year = {2005},
month = {June},
abstract = {This article quantifies the price-performance improvements on two standard commercial benchmarks (DebitCredit and Sort) from 1985 to 2005. It shows that improvement has exceeded Moore's law – largely due to (1) hardware improvements, (2) software improvements, (3) massive parallelism, and (4) changing from mainframe to commodity economics. Price-performance continues to improve faster than Moore's law but per-processor and peak performance are improving more slowly. The sorting results in particular indicate little progress on per-processor speed in the last decade (probably due to slow improvement in memory bandwidth) and little overall progress since 2000 (when thousands of processors and disks were first used).},
publisher = {Institution of Electrical Engineers},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/a-measure-of-transaction-processing-20-years-later/},
pages = {3-4},
journal = {IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin},
volume = {28},
number = {2},
note = {also as MSR-TR-2005-57},
}