Selected Topics in Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

TPC Benchmark Roadmap 2012. - Incorporating Recovery from Failures into a Data Integration Benchmark. - Two Firsts for the TPC: A Benchmark to Characterize Databases Virtualized in the Cloud, and a Publicly-Available, Complete End-to-End Reference Kit. - Adding a Temporal Dimension to the TPC-H Benchmark. - Performance Per Watt - Benchmarking Ways to Get More for Less. - Revisiting ETL Benchmarking: The Case for Hybrid Flows. - MulTe: A Multi-Tenancy Database Benchmark Framework. - BDMS Performance Evaluation: Practices, Pitfalls, and Possibilities. - Data Historians in the Data Management Landscape. - Scalable Generation of Synthetic GPS Traces with Real-Life Data Characteristics. - S3G2: A Scalable Structure-Correlated Social Graph Generator. - Benchmarking in the Cloud: What It Should, Can, and Cannot Be. - Characterizing Cloud Performance with TPC Benchmarks. - Setting the Direction for Big Data Benchmark Standards.