Introduction to Fair-Use TPC Benchmarking Kits
Thursday, October 24 at 16:00–16:50
Let us go over a handful of freely available benchmarking kits that can be used with PostgreSQL. They are designed to characterize system performance and give you an idea of how well your system performs. They can also be used for evaluating the performance of patches!
A number of benchmark specifications for transaction processing and databases have been released by the TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council) over the years. We will lightly review a handful of the current benchmarks and how to interpret results before demoing how to use these fair-use benchmarking kits. Particularly the C and E, a couple of the OLTP workloads, and the H and DS, a couple of the decision support workload.
These kits were originally developed at the OSDL before its merger with the Free Standards Group to form the Linux Foundation, thus they are primarily for Linux systems.
