How is this meaningful without detailed setup description?
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_results.asp?print=false...
Looking at this list of results one wonders what those results actually mean?
I think you can still drive some insights. I clicked on the TPC-C results you shared and read their executive summaries.
The Oracle on SPARC cluster (at the top, 2010) performs 30.2M qualified tx/min vs the 16K tx/min in this blog post. The Oracle cluster also costs $30M, which is clearly higher than the Cockroach cluster's cost.
That said, the TPC-C benchmark is new to me. Happy to update this comment if I'm misreading the numbers.
(Edited to incorporate the reply below.)
We're focusing today on our improvements over CockroachDB 1.1, using a small-ish cluster. We'll be showing some more scalability with larger clusters in the coming weeks. If you've found CockroachDB performance slow in the past, you will be pleasantly surprised with this release!
I think what's interesting with TPC-C is that you can sort the results based on performance or price/performance. On the price/performance metric, SPARC looks expensive. Dell has a $20K SQL Anywhere cluster that can do 113K tx/min.
I wonder if anyone tried to run these benchmarks on the cloud and how one would calculate total cost of ownership there now.