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Application Benchmark

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Synonyms

Benchmark; Performance benchmark

Definition

An application benchmark is a suite of tasks that are representative of typical workloads in an application domain.

Key Points

Unlike a MICROBENCHMARK, an application benchmark specifies broader tasks that are aimed at exercising most components of a system or tool. Each individual task in the benchmark is assigned a relative weight, usually reflecting its frequency or importance in the application being modeled. A meaningful interpretation of the benchmark results has to take these weights into account.

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a body with a long history of defining and published benchmarks for database systems. For instance, it has defined benchmarks for Online Transaction Processing applications (TPC-C and TPC-E), Decision Support applications (TPC-H), and for an Application Server setting (TPC-App).

Other examples of application benchmarks are: the OO1 and OO7 benchmarks, developed for...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AL, Canada

    Denilson Barbosa

  2. INRIA Saclay–Îlle de France, Orsay, France

    Ioana Manolescu

  3. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Jeffrey Xu Yu

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  1. Denilson Barbosa
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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Barbosa, D., Manolescu, I., Xu Yu, J. (2009). Application Benchmark. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_5055

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