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Assorted References on Database Benchmarking and Tuning
General
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[Gray93]
[Oneil94]
[Oneil97]
[SKS97]
A. B. Chaudhri, An Annotated Bibliography of Benchmarks for Object Databases, ACM SIGMOD
Record 24(1): 50-57, 1995.
J. Gray, The Benchmark Handbook for Databases and Transaction Processing (Second edition),
Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.
P. O’Neil, Database: Principle, Programming, and Performance, Morgan Kaufmann, 1994.
P. O’Neil, Database Performance Measurement, The Computer Science and Engineering
Handbook: 1078-1092, Allen B. Tucker (Ed.), CRC Press, 1997.
A. Silberschatz, H. Korth, and S. Sudarshan, Database System Concept, Third edition, McGrawHill, 1997.
Query optimization
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[Sel79]
G. Graefe, Query Evaluation Techniques for Large Databases, ACM Computing Surveys 25(2):
73-170, 1993.
P.G. Selinger, M.M. Astrahan, D.D. Chamberlin, R.A. Lorie, T.G. Price, Access Path Selection in a
Relational Database Management System, ACM SIGMOD, 1979.
Relational data model
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[BiTu88]
[DeWi93]
[TOB93]
[Oneil93]
D. Bitton, D. J. DeWitt and C. Turbyfill, Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic
Approach, Proc. of the Ninth Int. Conference on Very Large Data Bases: 8-19, 1983.
D. Bitton and C. Turbyfill, A Retrospective on the Wisconsin Benchmark, In: Readings in
Database Systems, M. Stonebraker ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1988.
D. DeWitt, The Wisconsin Benchmark: Past, Present, and Future, In: The Benchmark Handbook:
269-316, J. Gray ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.
C. Turbyfill, C. Orji and D. Bitton, AS3AP: An ANSI SQL Standard Scaleable and Portable
Benchmark for Relational Database Systems, In: The Benchmark Handbook: 317-358, J. Gray ed.,
Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.
P. O’Neil, The Set Query Benchmark, In: The Benchmark Handbook: 359-396, J. Gray ed.,
Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.
Object-oriented data model
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[CaDe93]
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[Kim95]
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[Schr94]
[WhDe92]
T. L. Anderson, A. J. Berre, M. Mallision, H. Porter and B. Schneider, The HyperModel
Benchmark, Proc. Int. Conference On Extending Database Technology: 317-331, 1990.
T. M. Atwood, The Case for Object-oriented Databases, IEEE Spectrum 2: 44-47, 1991.
M. J. Carey, D. J. DeWitt and J. F. Naughton, The OO7 Benchmark, Proc. ACM SIGMOD
Conference: 12-21, 1993.
M. J. Carey, D. J. DeWitt, C. Kant and J. F. Naughton, A Status Report on the OO7 OODBMS
Benchmarking Effort, Proc. of ACM OOPSLA Conference, 1994.
R. G. G. Cattell and K. Skeen, Object Operations benchmark, ACM Transactions on Database
Systems 17(3): 1-31, 1992.
D. DeWitt, P. Futtersack, D. Maier, and F. Velez, A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-server
Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems, Proc. of the Sixteenth Very Large Data Bases
Conference: 107-121, 1990.
W. Kim, Object-Oriented Database Systems: Promises, Reality, and Future, In: Modern Database
Systems: 255-280, W. Kim ed., Addison-Wesley, 1995.
W. Kim and J. F. Garza, Requirements for a Performance Benchmark for Object-oriented Database
Systems, In: Modern Database Systems: 203-215, W. Kim ed., Addison-Wesley, 1995.
W. B. Rubenstein, M. S. Kubicar and R. G. G. Cattell, Benchmarking Simple Database Operations,
Proc. ACM SIGMOD Conference: 387-394, 1987.
H. Schreiber, Justitia – A Generic Benchmark for the OODBMS Selection, Proc. of the Fourth
International Conference on Data and Knowledge Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering:
324-331, 1994
S. J. White and D. J. DeWitt, A Performance Study of Alternative Object Faulting and Pointer
Swizzling Strategies, Proc. of the 18th VLDB Conference: 419-431, 1992.
Object-relational data model
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[Kim96]
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M. Asgarian, M. J. Carey, D. J. DeWitt, J. Gehrke, J. F. Naughton, and D. N. Shah, The BUCKY
Object-Relational Benchmark, Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, 1997.
W. Kim, Completeness Criteria for Object-Relational Database Systems, UniSQL Inc., 1996.
S.H. Lee, S.J. Kim, and W. Kim, The BORD Benchmark for Object-Relational Databases, Proc. of
the 11th Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) Conference: 6-20, 2000.
M. Stonebraker, Object-relational DBMSs, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996.
Advanced application domain
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[SFGM93]
S. DeFazio, Overview of the Full-Text Retrieval Benchmark, In: The Benchmark Handbook: 435488, J. Gray ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.
M. Stonebraker, J. Frew, K. Gardels and J. Meredith, The SEQUOIA 2000 Storage Benchmark,
Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD Conference: 2-11, 1993.
Transaction Processing Performance Council
[TPC]
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TPC Home Page
http://www.tpc.org
R. Bhashyam, TPC-D – The Challenges, Issues and Results, ACM SIGMOD Record 25(4): 89-93,
1996.
M. Poess and C. Floyd, New TPC Benchmarks for Decision Support and Web Commerce, ACM
SIGMOD Record 29(40: 64-71, 2000.
G. Burgess, What is the TPC Good for? or The Top Ten Reasons in Favor or TPC Benchmarks,
2002.
http://www.tpc.org/information/other/techarticles.asp
W. Smith, TPC-W: Benchmarking an Ecommerce Solution, 2002.
http://www.tpc.org/tpcw/TPC-W_Wh.pdf
Tuning Techniques
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Special Issue on Self-Tuning Databases and Application Tuning, Bulletin of the Technical
Committee on Data Engineering 22(2): 3-40, IEEE Computer Society, 1999.
A. Kemper, Do. Kossmann, and B. Zeller, Performance Tuning for SAP R/3, Data Engineering
22(2): 32-39, 1999.
D. Shasha, Database Tuning: A Principled Approach, Prentice Hall PTR, 1992.
D. Shasha, F. Llirbat, E. Simon, and P. Valduriez, Transaction Chapping: Algorithms and
Performance Studies, ACM Transactions on Database Systems 20(3): 325-363, 1995.
M. Subramanian and V. Krishnamurthy, Performance Challenges in Object-Relational DBMSs,
Data Engineering 22(2): 27-31, 1999.
G. Weikum, C. Hasse, and A. Moenkeberg, and P. Zabback, The COMFORT Automatic Tuning
Project, Information Systems 19(5): 381-432, 1994.
Miscellanies
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J. Gray, P. Sundaresan, S. Englert, K. Baclawski, and P. Weinberger, Quickly Generating BillionRecord Synthetic Databases, Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD conference: 233-242, 1994.
J. M. Hellerstein and M. Stonebraker, Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive
Predicates, Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD conference: 267-276, 1993.
A. Eisenberg and J. Melton, Standards in Practice, ACM SIGMOD 27(3): 53-58, 1998.
Guide to Clustering, PC Magazine, 1997.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/pcmag/supp/cluster