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Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Simon Loesing · 2009
Traditionally, the goal of benchmarking a software system is to evaluate its performance under a particular workload for a fixed configuration. The most prominent examples for evaluating transactional database systems as well as other components on top (such as a application-servers or web-servers) are the various TPC benchmarks.