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Role of the TPC in the cloud age
In recent year the TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC) series have had significant influence in defining industry standards. The 11th TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2019) organized an industry panel on the “Role of the TPC in the Cloud Age”. This paper summaries the panel discussions
Keeping the TPC Relevant!
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1988 to define transaction processing and database benchmarks. Since then, the TPC has played a crucial role in providing the industry with relevant standards for total system performance, price-performance, and energy-efficiency comparisons. TPC benchmarks are widely used by database researchers and academia. Historically known for database-centric standards, the TPC has developed a benchmark for virtualization and is currently developing a multisource data integration benchmark. The technology landscape is changing at a rapid pace, challenging industry experts and researchers to develop innovative techniques for evaluating, measuring, and characterizing the performance o