On twitter Scott Drummonds just posted that VMware has submitted TPC-H benchmarks. Not only did they submit the benchmark VMware managed set a new world record for price/performance!
VMware ranked first with $ 0.70 Query-per-Hour Performance. The question of course is why is this important? It is important because TPC is a recognized industry leading benchmark and results can be used for customer discussion where effectiveness on high performance environment is in doubt.
The performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@Size), and reflects multiple aspects of the capability of the system to process queries. These aspects include the selected database size against which the queries are executed, the query processing power when queries are submitted by a single stream, and the query throughput when queries are submitted by multiple concurrent users. The TPC-H Price/Performance metric is expressed as $/QphH@Size.