Energy Cost, The Key Challenge of Today’s Data Centers: A Power Consumption Analysis of TPC-C Results

Summary: Introduces and validates a power-consumption model derivable from TPC-C full-disclosure data, covering clients, databases, and storage. Analysis of seven years of results exposes component-level energy trends and shows hardware scaling alone cannot deliver needed efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9940
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 8.4133111e-05
Overall Rank: 2,561 | 82.44%
DOI: 10.14778/1454159.1454162

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Authors

1. Meikel Poess (Oracle)
2. Raghunath Othayoth Nambiar (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)

BibTeX Citation

@article{poess_vldb08,
        title = {{Energy Cost, The Key Challenge of Today’s Data Centers: A Power Consumption Analysis of TPC-C Results}},
        author = {Poess, Meikel and Nambiar, Raghunath Othayoth},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1229--1240},
        doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454162},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454162},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,682	Energy Efficiency: The New Holy Grail of Data Management Systems Research	2009	CIDR	8.2625371e-05
5,165	Advances in Flash Memory SSD Technology for Enterprise Database Applications	2009	SIGMOD	6.3371139e-05
5,339	PET: Reducing Database Energy Cost via Query Optimization	2012	VLDB	6.2609069e-05
9,858	Adaptive Energy-Control for In-Memory Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	5.2061847e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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