tBench - A temporal extension of XBench

Alpha Release v1.0 (December 4, 2010)
(Includes tXSchema v2.1, XBench V1.0)

Stephen W. Thomas, Richard T. Snodgrass, and Rui Zhang
TimeCenter/TAU Group
University of Arizona and Queen's University



INTRODUCTION
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This package contains the tBench suite of benchmarks, data, and tools. For a
complete description of tBench, see the attached TimeCenter technical report.


DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
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data: this directory holds the four datasets defined by tBench (all benchmarks
    can work with any of the datasets)
benchmarks: this directory holds the actual benchmarks (schemas and workloads)
tools: this directory holds the supporting tool suite (e.g., tGenerator and 
    tCorruptor)
xbench: this directory holds a copy of the original XBench package.


USAGE
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See the README files in each subdirectory.


SUPPORTING TOOLS
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Some additional tools are needed to run the tBench benchmarks:

- tXSchema tool suite (included). 

- xmllint (standard on most *nix distributions). http://xmlsoft.org/

- XBench (included). 

- Galax (not included). http://www.galaxquery.org/



CONTACT
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Stephen W. Thomas: sthomas@cs.queensu.ca
Richard T. Snodgrass: rts@cs.arizona.edu
Rui Zhang: ruizhang@email.arizona.edu