Performance evaluation, measurement and characterization of complex systems : second TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2010, Singapore, September 13-17, 2010 : revised selected papers

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, TPCTC 2010, held in conjunction with the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2010, in Singapore, September 13-17, 2010. The 14 full papers and two keynote papers were carefully selected and reviewed from numerous submissions. This book considers issues such as appliance; business intelligence; cloud computing; complex event processing; database optimizations; data compression; energy and space efficiency, green computing; hardware innovations; high speed data generation; hybrid workloads; very large memory systems; and virtualization. Front Matter....Pages - Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC): State of the Council 2010....Pages 1-9 Liquid Benchmarks: Towards an Online Platform for Collaborative Assessment of Computer Science Research Results....Pages 10-24 A Discussion on the Design of Graph Database Benchmarks....Pages 25-40 A Data Generator for Cloud-Scale Benchmarking....Pages 41-56 How to Advance TPC Benchmarks with Dependability Aspects....Pages 57-72 Price and the TPC....Pages 73-84 Impact of Recent Hardware and Software Trends on High Performance Transaction Processing and Analytics....Pages 85-92 EXRT: Towards a Simple Benchmark for XML Readiness Testing....Pages 93-109 Transaction Performance vs. Moore’s Law: A Trend Analysis....Pages 110-120 TPC-V: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Performance of Database Applications in Virtual Environments....Pages 121-135 First TPC-Energy Benchmark: Lessons Learned in Practice....Pages 136-152 Using Solid State Drives as a Mid-Tier Cache in Enterprise Database OLTP Applications....Pages 153-168 Benchmarking Adaptive Indexing....Pages 169-184 XWeB: The XML Warehouse Benchmark....Pages 185-203 Benchmarking Using Basic DBMS Operations....Pages 204-215 Assessing and Optimizing Microarchitectural Performance of Event Processing Systems....Pages 216-231 Back Matter....Pages - Edited By Raghunath Nambiar, Meikel Poess.