Performance characterization and benchmarking : traditional to big data : 6th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2014, Hangzhou, China, September 1-5, 2014 : revised selected papers

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2014, held in Hangzhou, China, in September 2014. It contains 12 selected peer-reviewed papers, a report from the TPC Public Relations Committee. Many buyers use TPC benchmark results as points of comparison when purchasing new computing systems. The information technology landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, challenging industry experts and researchers to develop innovative techniques for evaluation, measurement and characterization of complex systems. The TPC remains committed to developing new benchmark standards to keep pace, and one vehicle for achieving this objective is the sponsorship of the Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC). Over the last five years TPCTC has been held successfully in conjunction with VLDB. Front Matter....Pages I-XIV Introducing TPCx-HS: The First Industry Standard for Benchmarking Big Data Systems....Pages 1-12 An Evaluation of Alternative Physical Graph Data Designs for Processing Interactive Social Networking Actions....Pages 13-28 On Characterizing the Performance of Distributed Graph Computation Platforms....Pages 29-43 Discussion of BigBench: A Proposed Industry Standard Performance Benchmark for Big Data....Pages 44-63 A Scalable Framework for Universal Data Generation in Parallel....Pages 64-81 Towards an Extensible Middleware for Database Benchmarking....Pages 82-96 Scaling Up Mixed Workloads: A Battle of Data Freshness, Flexibility, and Scheduling....Pages 97-112 Parameter Curation for Benchmark Queries....Pages 113-129 Downtime-Free Live Migration in a Multitenant Database....Pages 130-155 Performance Analysis of Database Virtualization with the TPC-VMS Benchmark....Pages 156-172 A Query, a Minute: Evaluating Performance Isolation in Cloud Databases....Pages 173-187 Composite Key Generation on a Shared-Nothing Architecture....Pages 188-203 Back Matter....Pages 205-205