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: 9572
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 0.00017860667
Overall Rank: 476 | 96.74%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Raghunath Othayoth (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
2. Meikel Poess (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@article{othayoth_vldb06,
        title = {{The Making of TPC-DS}},
        author = {Othayoth, Raghunath and Poess, Meikel},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        year = {2006}
}

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12,316	Interactive Performance Monitoring of a Composite OLTP and OLAP Workload	2012	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,486	Visualizing the robustness of query execution	2009	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
2,690	Generating Thousand Benchmark Queries in Seconds	2004	VLDB	8.2519326e-05
2,726	TPC-DS, Taking Decision Support Benchmarking to the Next Level	2002	SIGMOD	8.203274e-05

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