A Benchmark of NonStop SQL on the Debit Credit Transaction

Summary: Benchmark of NonStop SQL on Tandem hardware with Debit Credit; linear throughput grows from 14 to 208 tps as 2→32 CPUs scale. Compared with a record-at-a-time file-system interface, SQL shows competitive efficiency for standard transactional workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2473
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 0.00013021781
Overall Rank: 951 | 93.48%
DOI: 10.1145/50202.50243

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Authors

1. The Tandem Performance Group (Tandem Computers)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{group_sigmod88,
        title = {{A Benchmark of NonStop SQL on the Debit Credit Transaction}},
        author = {Group, The Tandem Performance},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '88},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/50202.50243},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/50202.50243},
        year = {1988}
}

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242	A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment	1989	SIGMOD	0.00023604323
826	High-Performance Sorting on Networks of Workstations	1997	SIGMOD	0.0001377339
1,188	Bucket Spreading Parallel Hash: A New, Robust, Parallel Hash Join Method for Data Skew in the Super Database Computer (SDC)	1990	VLDB	0.00011756444
1,271	Hybrid-Range Partitioning Strategy: A New Declustering Strategy for Multiprocessor Database Machines	1990	VLDB	0.0001138443
1,291	Managing Intra-operator Parallelism in Parallel Database Systems	1995	VLDB	0.00011307625
2,613	A Performance Analysis of Alternative Multi-Attribute Declustering Strategies	1992	SIGMOD	8.3460281e-05
6,847	Semantic Complexity of Classes of Relational Queries and Query Independent Data Partitioning	1991	PODS	5.7554494e-05
7,801	A Non-Uniform Data Fragmentation Strategy for Parallel Main-Memory Database Systems	1995	VLDB	5.542027e-05
7,984	Parallelism and Concurrency Control Performance in Distributed Database Machines	1989	SIGMOD	5.5132407e-05
9,107	Efficient Testing of High Performance Transaction Processing Systems	1997	VLDB	5.3225923e-05
13,031	Predictive Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel and Distributed Rule and Query Processing	1994	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
45	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00045531113

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