15 February 2009

DBMS: Throughput (Definitions)

"The volume of work completed in a given time period. It is usually measured in transactions per second (TPS)." (Karen Paulsell et al, "Sybase SQL Server: Performance and Tuning Guide", 1996)

"The number of operations the DBMS can do in a time unit." (Peter Gulutzan & Trudy Pelzer, "SQL Performance Tuning", 2002)

"The amount of work performed by a computer system within a specified time interval; for example, the number of transactions of a certain type that can be processed per second. See also response time, workload, channel capacity." (Richard D Stutzke, "Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes", 2005)

"Amount of activity a system can sustain over a period of time." (Marilyn Miller-White et al, "MCITP Administrator: Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Optimization and Maintenance 70-444", 2007)

"The amount of data that is transferred from sender to receiver over time." (John Goodson & Robert A Steward, "The Data Access Handbook", 2009)

"The number of work items processed per unit of time." (Max Domeika, "Software Development for Embedded Multi-core Systems", 2011)

"Given a set of tasks to be performed, the rate at which those tasks are completed. Throughput measures the rate of computation, and it is given in units of tasks per unit time." (Michael McCool et al, "Structured Parallel Programming", 2012)

"The amount of work completed in a unit of time." (Oracle, "Database SQL Tuning Guide Glossary", 2013)

"The rate at which transactions are completed in a system." (Marcia Kaufman et al, "Big Data For Dummies", 2013)

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