Transaction Processing Performance Council

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Formation	1988
Type	Not-for-profit
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, US
Membership	Hardware and software vendors, market researchers, educational institutions, consultants
Website	www.tpc.org

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), founded in 1988, is a non-profit organization founded to define benchmarks for transaction processing and databases, and to publish objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry.^[1] TPC benchmarks are used in evaluating the performance of computer systems, and TPC publishes the results.