With the release of Windows Server 2003 Microsoft and HP has reached a new high on the TPC-C benchmark; 658,277 transactions per second on a non-clustered system.
Microsoft has a reputation among many people for building software that does not scale to meet the toughest requirements. That has not been so for a very long time.
It is also interesting to see the results from Doculabs Web Services Benchmark as reported by Scott Hanselman:
The results you ask? Let's just summarize by saying:
- Windows and the .NET Framework is the Best Platform for Web Services
- JBoss on Linux was the fastest Java system (!)
- Web Services on J2EE offers inconsistant performance
- Oracle on Windows 2003 Server is a very viable option
- Windows 2003 Server and Oracle offered a 37% increase in throughput compared to Windows 2000 and Oracle
- Windows 2003 Server and SQL2k offered roughtly an 38% increase in throughput compared to Windows 2003 and Oracle
I noted the following comment in the report
It is believed that the performance results for .NET are due to the fact that Web Services were part of the core .NET Framework from the start, and not added features on top of an existing framework (as is the case with J2EE).
Whenever I discuss .NET vs J2EE with my Java friends, this is one of my main arguments for .NET; it was built from the ground up to support XML and web services. That shines through not only with regards to performance but also with regards to easy of development and tool support.
Another interesting part of the Doculabs test is that JBoss outperformed commercially available J2EE app servers. This is consistent with the PetStore results from The Middelware Company.
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