TPC Launches TPCx-HS

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 18 — The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) today announced the immediate availability of TPCx-HS, developed to provide verifiable performance, price / performance, availability, and optional energy consumption metrics of big data systems. TPCx-HS is the industry’s first objective benchmark enabling measurement of both hardware and software including Hadoop Runtime, Hadoop Filesystem API compatible systems and MapReduce layers. And – as the TPC’s first Express Benchmark – TPCx-HS is available via the TPC Web site in the form of a downloadable kit.

TPCx-HS can be used to asses a broad range of system topologies and implementation methodologies, in a technically rigorous and directly comparable, vendor-neutral manner. It is available online – via the TPC’s Web site – at the following URL: www.tpc.org/tpcx-hs.

“TPCx-HS is a major achievement in two distinct arenas,” said Raghunath Nambiar, chairman of the TPCx-HS committee. ”TPCx-HS is the first vendor-neutral benchmark focused on big data systems – which have become a critical part of the enterprise IT ecosystem. Secondly, TPCx-HS is the first Express- class benchmark issued by the TPC. Express-class benchmarks are being developed in response to overwhelming demand for a turnkey alternative to enterprise-class benchmarks, which have distinct advantages but are also substantially more time-intensive and costly to run.”

Big Data was identified as a priority area for vendor-neutral benchmark development during last year’s Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC). This year’s TPCTC conference will be held in Hangzhou, China on September 5, co-located with VLDB 2014.