An engineering database benchmark
R. G. G. Cattell · Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. eBooks · 1994
Performance is a major issue in the acceptance of object-oriented and extended relational database systems aimed at engineering applications such as Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) and Computer-Aided Design (CAD). Because traditional database system benchmarks (Bitton, DeWitt, & Turbyfill [BITT84], Anon et. al. [ANON85], TPC [TPC89]) do not measure the performance of features essential to engineering applications, we designed an engineering database benchmark. The benchmark, named EDB (for Engineering Database Benchmark), has been run on a dozen database products and prototypes. This chapter describes EDB and the results obtained running it on a relational and on an object-oriented DBMS. This chapter derives from a paper by Cattell and Skeen [CATT91]. EDB is a redesign of an earlier, more primitive benchmark described in Rubenstein, Kubicar, and Cattell [RUBE1987].