Why You Should Run TPC-DS: A Workload Analysis

Summary: Argues that running TPC-DS is essential for benchmarking by dissecting workload phases (load, query, maintenance) and their impact on the metric. Cites formal review status and relevance for vendor evaluation and research on optimization techniques. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9523
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 6.5953162e-05
Overall Rank: 3,951 | 72.52%
DOI: -

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1,727	BigBench: Towards an Industry Standard Benchmark for Big Data Analytics	2013	SIGMOD	0.00010740936
2,277	Generating Targeted Queries for Database Testing	2008	SIGMOD	9.1241198e-05
2,444	Brighthouse: An Analytic Data Warehouse for Ad-hoc Queries	2008	VLDB	8.8076551e-05
2,916	Quantifying TPC-H Choke Points and Their Optimizations	2020	VLDB	7.9068048e-05
5,114	TPC-DI: The First Industry Benchmark for Data Integration	2014	VLDB	5.6863051e-05
7,760	G-SQL: Fast Query Processing via Graph Exploration	2016	VLDB	4.6589413e-05
8,578	Robust and Budget-Constrained Encoding Configurations for In-Memory Database Systems	2022	VLDB	4.4923477e-05
9,155	Towards Resource Efficiency: Practical Insights into Large-Scale Spark Workloads at ByteDance	2024	VLDB	4.3849295e-05
9,352	Db2une: Tuning Under Pressure via Deep Learning	2024	VLDB	4.3522361e-05
9,913	Chukonu: A Fully-Featured High-Performance Big Data Framework that Integrates a Native Compute Engine into Spark	2022	VLDB	4.2565279e-05
10,203	Reqo: A Comprehensive Learning-Based Cost Model for Robust and Explainable Query Optimization	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,707	PBench: Workload Synthesizer with Real Statistics for Cloud Analytics Benchmarking	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,479	Vertex-centric Parallel Computation of SQL Queries	2021	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,005	Design and Implementation of a Real-Time Interactive Analytics System for Large Spatio-Temporal Data	2014	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
21	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00086087497
659	The Making of TPC-DS	2006	VLDB	0.00018500853
1,070	Analyzing Plan Diagrams of Database Query Optimizers	2005	VLDB	0.00014316791
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
13,660	Large Scale Data Warehouses on Grid: Oracle Database 10g and HP ProLiant Servers	2005	VLDB	-

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