The Benchmark Handbook, 1993

Jim Gray (Ed.): The Benchmark Handbook for Database and Transaction Systems (2nd Edition). Morgan Kaufmann 1993, ISBN 1-55860-292-5

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• Jim Gray:
  Database and Transaction Processing Performance Handbook.
  
• Omri Serlin:
  The History of DebitCredit and the TPC.
  
• Carrie Ballinger:
  TPC-D: Benchmarking for Decision Support.
  
• David J. DeWitt:
  The Wisconsin Benchmark: Past, Present, and Future.
  
• Carolyn Turbyfill, Cyril U. Orji, Dina Bitton:
  AS³AP - An ANSI SQL Standard Scaleable and Portable Benchmark for Relational Database Systems.
  
• Patrick E. O'Neil:
  The Set Query Benchmark.
  
• R. G. G. Cattell:
  The Engineering Database Benchmark.
  
• Samuel DeFazio:
  Overview of the Full-Text Document Retrieval Benchmark.
  
• Kaivalya M. Dixit:
  Overview of the SPEC Benchmarks.
  
• The Neal Nelson Database Benchmark^TM: A Benchmark Based on the Realities of Business.
  
• Tom Sawyer:
  Doing Your Own Benchmark.
  
• Francois Raab:
  TPC-C - The Standard Benchmark for Online transaction Processing (OLTP).
  
• TPC Benchmark^TM A: Standard Specification.
  
• TPC Benchmark^TM B: Standard Specification.