I. INTRODUCTION With the demise of Dennard scaling, today's architects are confronting chips filled with more transistors than can be fully powered. One possible mechanism to continue improving performance on a power budget is the use of hardware accelerators , fixed-function hardware blocks which compute a specific task at a fraction of the cost of a general-purpose processor. Unfortunately, d...

Many of the application systems being designed today, variously known as marketing information, decision support, and management reporting systems, aim to exploit the strategic value of operational data of a commercial enterprise. These applications depart from the row-at-a-time update transaction model of the DebitCredit [1] and TPC benchmarks, and are almost wholly dependent for their perform...

As XML becomes the standard for electronic data interchange, benchmarks are needed to provide the comparative performance analysis of XML management systems (XMLMS). Typically a benchmark should adhere to four criteria: relevance, portability, scalability and simplicity [1]. The data structure of a benchmark for XML must be complex enough to capture the characteristics of XML data representatio...

Performance is a major issue in the acceptance of object-oriented and extended relational database systems aimed at engineering applications such as Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) and Computer-Aided Design (CAD). Because traditional database system benchmarks (Bitton, DeWitt, & Turbyfill [BITT84], Anon et. al. [ANON85], TPC [TPC89]) do not measure the performance of features essenti...

The 007 Benchmark represents a comprehensive test of 00DBMS performance. In this paper we describe the benchmark and present performance results from its implementation in three 00DBMS systems. It is our hope that the 007 Benchmark will provide useful insight for end-users evaluating the performance of 00DBMS systems; we also hope that the research community will find that 007 provides a databa...

The SPARQL Query Language for RDF and the SPARQL Protocol for RDF are implemented by a growing number of storage systems and are used within enterprise and open Web settings. As SPARQL is taken up by the community, there is a growing need for benchmarks to compare the performance of storage systems that expose SPARQL endpoints via the SPARQL protocol. Such systems include native RDF stores as w...