Performance Characterization and Benchmarking, 2014 5th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2013, Trento, Italy, August 26, 2013, Revised Selected Papers Programming and Software Engineering Series

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 5th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2013, held in Trento, Italy, in August 2013. It contains 7 selected peer-reviewed papers, a report from the TPC Public Relations Committee and one invited paper. The papers present novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement and characterization.

TPC State of the Council 2013.- TPC-BiH: A Benchmark for Bitemporal Databases.- Towards Comprehensive Measurement of Consistency Guarantees for Cloud-Hosted Data Storage Services.- TPC Express – A New Path for TPC Benchmarks.- TPC-H Analyzed: Hidden Messages and Lessons Learned from an Influential Benchmark.- Architecture and Performance Characteristics of a PostgreSQL Implementation of the TPC-E and TPC-V Workloads.- A Practice of TPC-DS Multidimensional Implementation on NoSQL Database Systems.- PRIMEBALL: A Parallel Processing Framework Benchmark for Big Data Applications in the Cloud.- CEPBen: A Benchmark for Complex Event Processing Systems.