Part 1 of a 5-part series on Performance Benchmarking and its use in DW Analytics Engineering and Maintenance activities.
While formal database benchmarks with Full Disclosure Reports have fallen out of favor, vendors and practitioners alike are finding new and creative uses for benchmarking, including the old stalwart, TPC-DS. This is especially true in understanding how the new wave of DW/Analytics solutions — Cloud Data Warehouses, Spark and SQL-on-Hadoop, and GPU-accelerated SQL engines — augment traditional on-prem Data Warehouse appliances.