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New parallel database systems are being developed to support the data processing needs of large commercial organisations: these offer increased performance in terms of processing throughput and enhanced support for both on-line transaction processing and management information provision. In order to evaluate the performance of these systems a new SQL benchmark has been developed which models the requirements for real database applications. Based on a large commercial database the benchmark system includes the specification of the test or “mimic” database and sets of transactions and queries, and the data/transaction generation tools. The benchmark uses synthetic data which closely resembles real world data and provides for evaluation of the scalability of system under test.
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Jelly, I., Kerridge, J., Bates, C. (1994). Benchmarking parallel SQL database machines. In: Bowers, D.S. (eds) Directions in Databases. BNCOD 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 826. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58235-5_38
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