New Initiatives in the TPC.

TPC stands for stricter standards and tougher tests in system benchmarking for over 30 years, during which technology advanced enormously. In order to stay relevant the TPC had to adapt to the advancing technology or become obsolete. Initially, the business use case of computer systems was mainly focused on online transaction processing (OLTP). Hence, the TPC developed a series of OLTP benchmarks, learning valuable lessons along the way (TPC-A, TPC-B, TPC-C and TPC-E). Then the TPC ventured into other use cases such as decision support (TPC-D, TPC-H, TPC-R, TPC-DS), web applications (TPC-App), virtualization (TCP-VMS) and data integration (TPC-DI). When the TPC realized that the old way of developing benchmarks was not sustainable, it added a new way of developing benchmark, express benchmark, which resulted in a flurry of benchmark standards (TPCx-HS, TPCx-V, TPCx-BB, TPCx-HCI, TPCx-IoT and TPCx-AI). With cloud computing becoming more and more important, the TPC made sure that new benchmarks would be able to run in the cloud. At the same time the TPC modified its pricing specification to allow for pricing of cloud based benchmarks.