Table of Contents

Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC): Twenty Years Later – A Look Back, a Look Ahead.- A New Direction for TPC?.- The Art of Building a Good Benchmark.- Database Are Not Toasters: A Framework for Comparing Data Warehouse Appliances.- The State of Energy and Performance Benchmarking for Enterprise Servers.- From Performance to Dependability Benchmarking: A Mandatory Path.- Overview of TPC Benchmark E: The Next Generation of OLTP Benchmarks.- Converting TPC-H Query Templates to Use DSQGEN for Easy Extensibility.- Generating Shifting Workloads to Benchmark Adaptability in Relational Database Systems.- Measuring Database Performance in Online Services: A Trace-Based Approach.- Issues in Benchmark Metric Selection.- Benchmarking Query Execution Robustness.- Benchmarking Database Performance in a Virtual Environment.- Principles for an ETL Benchmark.- Benchmarking ETL Workflows.- A Performance Study of Event Processing Systems.- The Star Schema Benchmark and Augmented Fact Table Indexing.- An Approach of Performance Evaluation in Authentic Database Applications.