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An application benchmark is a suite of tasks that are representative of typical workloads in an application domain.
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Unlike a MICROBENCHMARK, an application benchmark specifies broader tasks that are aimed at exercising most components of a system or tool. Each individual task in the benchmark is assigned a relative weight, usually reflecting its frequency or importance in the application being modeled. A meaningful interpretation of the benchmark results has to take these weights into account.
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a body with a long history of defining and published benchmarks for database systems. For instance, it has defined benchmarks for Online Transaction Processing applications (TPC-C and TPC-E), Decision Support applications (TPC-H), and for an Application Server setting (TPC-App).
Other examples of application benchmarks are: the OO1 and OO7 benchmarks, developed for...
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Barbosa, D., Manolescu, I., Xu Yu, J. (2009). Application Benchmark. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_5055
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