Understanding the TPC-DS dataset
Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC®) is a non-profit corporation and a worldwide consortium. It was founded in 1985 and has major hardware and software vendors as full-time members.
Their mission is two-fold:
- Develop data-centric benchmark standards for various systems.
- Disseminate objective, verifiable benchmarking data to the industry.
TPC-DS (https://www.tpc.org/tpcds/) stands for Transaction Processing Performance Council – Decision Support. It is a benchmarking standard for creating verifiable, objective performance data about decision support systems (DSSs).
DSSs are software systems that sift and analyze massive amounts of data and can compile comprehensive information that can be used in decision-making. For example, a DSS can compile projected revenue or inventory management information for an enterprise operation.
TPC-DS consists of two things of interest to us:
- A software that allows...
