Why You Should Run TPC-DS:A Workload Analysis

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is completing development of TPC-DS, a new generation industry standard decision support benchmark. The TPC-DS benchmark, first introduced in the "The Making of TPC-DS" paper at the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), has now entered the TPC's "Formal Review" phase for new benchmarks; companies and researchers alike can now download the paper benchmark specification and tools for evaluation. The first paper [9] gave an overview of the TPC-DS data model, workload model, and execution rules.