BigBench: Towards an Industry Standard Benchmark for Big Data Analytics
Summary: BigBench: an industry-standard end-to-end benchmark for big data analytics. Extends TPC-DS with semi-structured and unstructured data (clicks, reviews), adds a scalable data generator and a multi-dimensional workload; feasibility shown on Teradata Aster with 200 GB. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Ahmad Ghazal (Teradata)
- 2. Tilmann Rabl (University of Toronto)
- 3. Minqing Hu (Teradata)
- 4. Francois Raab (InfoSizing, Inc.)
- 5. Meikel Poess (Oracle)
- 6. Alain Crolotte (Teradata)
- 7. Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{ghazal_sigmod13,
title = {{BigBench: Towards an Industry Standard Benchmark for Big Data Analytics}},
author = {Ghazal, Ahmad and Rabl, Tilmann and Hu, Minqing and Raab, Francois and Poess, Meikel and Crolotte, Alain and Jacobsen, Hans-Arno},
series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2463676.2463712},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2463712},
year = {2013}
}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.0010686205 |
| 44 | A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00046055057 |
| 79 | XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00036555628 |
| 476 | The Making of TPC-DS | 2006 | VLDB | 0.00017860667 |
| 1,087 | The OO7 Benchmark | 1993 | SIGMOD | 0.0001224919 |
| 1,264 | SQL/MapReduce: A practical approach to self-describing, polymorphic, and parallelizable user-defined functions | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00011416393 |
| 3,173 | Why You Should Run TPC-DS:A Workload Analysis | 2007 | VLDB | 7.6664516e-05 |
| 3,963 | Solving Big Data Challenges for Enterprise Application Performance Management | 2012 | VLDB | 6.9864509e-05 |
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