HOW WE BENCHMARK TEST
The ability to process and analyse data efficiently has become a key driver of business performance, placing greater demands on the infrastructure that supports it. Choosing the right cloud platform can significantly impact speed, scalability and overall cost.
To provide a clear and consistent comparison, we conducted performance benchmarking using the industry-standard TPROC-C HammerDB tool. Microsoft SQL Server workloads were tested on a Microsoft Azure Standard F4s v2 virtual machine and compared against a similarly configured BlackBox Hosting Standard Single Server.
TEST PARAMETERS AND RESULTS
We created two new virtual machines with only HammerDB and SQL Server 2025 Standard installed. We tested using 4 warehouses and 16 virtual users.
The BlackBox Hosting standard VM achieved a higher transactional throughput than its Azure counterpart. Microsoft Azure’s VM achieved 57,546 NOPM (new orders per minute) and 133,511 TPM (transactions per minute) compared to our BlackBox VM achieving 127,271 NOPM and 295,698 TPM.
By using BlackBox Hosting, you could halve your costs as well as benefitting from over 120% increased performance to support your data needs.
NEW ORDERS PER MINUTE
TRANSACTIONS PER MINUTE
COST ANALYSIS
