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Foil 50 TPC-D - a Decision Support Benchmark?
Overall Evaluation

From Second Part of RDBMS Discussion ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny Chao-Wei Ou
1 TPC-D design contains flaws that make its use questionable even for sequential database systems
2 Given the complexity of the parallel database systems, attempts to reduce their performance estimate to one number are most likely futile
3 TPC-D defines no metrics useful for understanding behavior of parallel RDBMSes. TPC-D designers should re-examine academic research work pertinent to the field
4 Future research work towards definition of DS benchmark for parallel databases seems important
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