Challenges and Progress of Big Data Management System Benchmarks

Abstract

Database benchmarking has stimulated the development of data management systems and technologies. In big data environments, benchmarking should be revisited. Therefore, research on benchmarks for big data management systems is a key problem for big data research and applications. Benchmark design can be achieved from three different perspectives, i.e. data, workload, and performance measurements. After the brief introduction to these three elements and the progress of big data management system research, the requirements and challenges to benchmarking big data management systems were analyzed. Through the introduction to a benchmark for analytical queries over social media data, named as BSMA, the issues of design and implementation of a benchmark for big data management systems were discussed.

Keywords

• big data management system;benchmark;data generation;workload generation;performance measurement