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: h6bf511d26e052e8c
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 0.00017656775
Overall Rank: 473 | 96.84%
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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11,815	Asymptotically Better Query Optimization Using Indexed Algebra	2023	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,982	Accelerating Complex Analytics using Speculation	2021	CIDR	4.9605343e-05
12,656	Interactive Performance Monitoring of a Composite OLTP and OLAP Workload	2012	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-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
2,719	Generating Thousand Benchmark Queries in Seconds	2004	VLDB	8.0785428e-05
2,731	TPC-DS, Taking Decision Support Benchmarking to the Next Level	2002	SIGMOD	8.0676575e-05

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