Dell Store 2

The Dell Store 2 was originally distributed by Dell at http://linux.dell.com/dvdstore/ as part of an effort to create a vendor neutral comparison test. It includes everything from the database to an e-commerce web application. Their sample store sells DVDs to customers and includes products, orders, inventory, and customer history.

A PostgreSQL port of the database part of the Dell Store application is available from the sample databases project at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbsamples/.

While the benchmark can theoretically be targeted to create three sizes, only the small (10 MB) version is available for PostgreSQL so far. The data generators for the medium (1 GB) and large (100 GB) stores haven't been implemented for PostgreSQL yet. This makes the Dell Store 2 a modest test database for examples here, but not a real representative of a serious workload by modern standards.

Obtaining and installing Dell Store 2 can be very simple:

$ wget http://pgfoundry.org/frs...