The SEQUOIA 2000 storage benchmark

• Main Authors: Stonebraker, Michael, Frew, Jim, Gardels, Kenn, Meredith, Jeff
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Applied computing > Physical sciences and engineering > Earth and atmospheric sciences; Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Computer vision; Computing methodologies > Computer graphics > Image manipulation; Computing methodologies > Computer graphics > Image manipulation > Image processing; Information systems > Data management systems > Database design and models; Information systems > Data management systems > Database management system engines > Database query processing; Information systems > Data management systems > Database management system engines > Database transaction processing; Theory of computation > Theory and algorithms for application domains > Database theory > Database query processing and optimization (theory)
• ISSN: 0163-5808
• DOI: 10.1145/170035.170038

This paper presents a benchmark that concisely captures the data base requirements of a collection of Earth Scientists working in the SEQUOIA 2000 project on various aspects of global change research. This benchmark has the novel characteristic that it uses real data sets and real queries that are representative of Earth Science tasks. Because it appears that Earth Science problems are typical of the problems of engineering and scientific DBMS users, we claim that this benchmark represents the needs of this more general community. Also included in the paper are benchmark results for three example DBMSs: GRASS, IPW and POSTGRES.