The Making of TPC-DS

Summary: Introducing TPC-DS as the successor to TPC-D/H for decision-support benchmarking, reflecting shifts. Describes key design choices and performance dimensions the benchmark targets, emphasizing modern workloads and data/query characteristics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9381
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 0.00018500853
Overall Rank: 659 | 95.42%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Raghunath Othayoth
2. Meikel Poess

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10,435	Demo of LearnedWMP: Workload Memory Prediction Using Deep Query Template Representations	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,627	Robust Plan Evaluation based on Approximate Probabilistic Machine Learning	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,652	The LDBC Financial Benchmark: Transaction Workload	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,751	PAR2QO: Parametric Penalty-Aware Robust Query Optimization	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
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11,067	Partition, Don’t Sort! Compression Boosters for Cloud Data Ingestion Pipelines	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,254	Asymptotically Better Query Optimization Using Indexed Algebra	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,427	Accelerating Complex Analytics using Speculation	2021	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
12,119	Interactive Performance Monitoring of a Composite OLTP and OLAP Workload	2012	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,291	Visualizing the robustness of query execution	2009	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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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
2,614	Generating Thousand Benchmark Queries in Seconds	2004	VLDB	8.4490632e-05
3,241	TPC-DS, Taking Decision Support Benchmarking to the Next Level	2002	SIGMOD	7.3305643e-05

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