Topics in Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization : Third TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2011, Seattle, WA, USA, August 29- September 3, 2011. Revised Selected Papers

-- This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, TPCTC 2011, held in conjunction with the 37th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2011, in Seattle, August/September 2011. -- The 12 full papers and 2 keynote papers were carefully selected and reviewed from numerous submissions. The papers present novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement, and characterization Front Matter....Pages - Shaping the Landscape of Industry Standard Benchmarks: Contributions of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)....Pages 1-9 Metrics for Measuring the Performance of the Mixed Workload CH-benCHmark....Pages 10-30 Towards an Enhanced Benchmark Advocating Energy-Efficient Systems....Pages 31-45 Optimization of Analytic Data Flows for Next Generation Business Intelligence Applications....Pages 46-66 Normalization in a Mixed OLTP and OLAP Workload Scenario....Pages 67-82 Measuring Performance of Complex Event Processing Systems....Pages 83-96 Benchmarking with Your Head in the Cloud....Pages 97-110 Extending TPC-E to Measure Availability in Database Systems....Pages 111-122 SI-CV: Snapshot Isolation with Co-located Versions....Pages 123-136 Introducing Skew into the TPC-H Benchmark....Pages 137-145 Time and Cost-Efficient Modeling and Generation of Large-Scale TPCC/TPCE/TPCH Workloads....Pages 146-162 When Free Is Not Really Free: What Does It Cost to Run a Database Workload in the Cloud?....Pages 163-179 A Fine-Grained Performance-Based Decision Model for Virtualization Application Solution....Pages 180-195 A PDGF Implementation for TPC-H....Pages 196-212 Back Matter....Pages -