NCR´s Teradata relational database has posted the first-ever one terabyte data warehouse performance benchmark on Microsoft Windows 2000. The performance result is on the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) TPC-R benchmark, which measures how well databases handle data-warehouse and decision-support workloads with multiple, concurrent users submitting complex queries. The combination of Windows 2000 Server and Teradata performed multiple-stream workloads of 21,254 composite queries per hour. That´s a result that shows companies will soon be able to take advantage of unparalleled scalability, availability and manageability.

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