Cloud Analytics Benchmark

Why Your Data Warehouse Benchmarks Might Be Misleading Why Your Data Warehouse Benchmarks Might Be Misleading - And Why Cloud Changes Everything This blog summarizes and analyzes the research paper Cloud Analytics Benchmark by van Renen, A., and Leis, V. (2023), published in PVLDB 16(6), 1413–1425. Read the paper Most organizations rely on the benchmark results when performing a comparison of data warehouse systems. But what if the benchmark itself no longer reflects the realities of the modern cloud system’s conduct? This paper confronts that assumption head-on. It argues that traditional benchmarking can overlook the absolutely critical components of cloud analytics, which are multi-tenancy, elastic resource allocation, workload bursts, and cost. Why traditional benchmarks fall short For years, TPC-H, TPC-DS...