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Foil 47 TPC-D - a Decision Support Benchmark?
Problems with TPC-D design

From Second Part of RDBMS Discussion ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny Chao-Wei Ou
Query stream design: Query 17 takes more than 95% of the time needed to execute the stream
Overal design unnecessarily mimics TPC OLTP benchmarks
Metrics more suitable for Data Warehouse applications than for ad hoc DS queries
Benchmark expensive to run (huge disk space requirements)

© on Mon Oct 13 1997