Topics in Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization

Shaping the Landscape of Industry Standard Benchmarks: Contributions of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC).- Metrics for Measuring the Performance of the Mixed Workload CH-benCHmark.-Towards an Enhanced Benchmark Advocating Energy-Efficient Systems.-Optimization of Analytic Data Flows for Next Generation Business Intelligence Applications.-Normalization in a Mixed OLTP and OLAP Workload Scenario.-Measuring Performance of Complex Event Processing Systems.-Benchmarking with Your Head in the Cloud.-Extending TPC-E to Measure Availability in Database Systems.-SI-CV: Snapshot Isolation with Co-located Version.-Introducing Skew into the TPC-H Benchmark.-Time and Cost-Efficient Modeling and Generation of Large-Scale TPCC/TPCE/TPCH Workloads.-When Free Is Not Really Free: What Does It Cost to Run a Database Workload in the Cloud?.-A Fine-Grained Performance-Based Decision Model for Virtualization Application Solution.-A PDGF Implementation for TPC-H.-