Measuring relational database server transaction speeds with the AS3AP benchmark

This project involves comparing two relational database servers using sections of the AS3AP industry standard benchmark. The two servers tested were Oracle 8.0.3, developed by the Oracle Corporation and MySQL 3.22.14b-gamma, developed by T.c.X DataKonsultAB. The servers were both installed on the same Intel-based hardware platform running the Red Hat Linux 5.2 operating system (kernel 2.0.36). All tests were conducted over a network on a fixed size database. The complexities of the queries were varied and the transactions per second were measured on the database server side to give an indication of relative performance