Thanks, Michael! I'm looking to compare AsterixDB against Greenplum and post the results. Anyone know if Greenplum has the "DeWitt clause"?
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 4:20 PM Michael Carey <[email protected]> wrote: > (Meant to reply to the list!) > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: what parallel DBMS is AsterixDB compared against? > Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 13:18:04 -0700 > From: Michael Carey <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > To: Karl Pietrzak <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > > It's known in the literature as "System X" - other work, e.g., the early > MIT/Brown work in 2008-2009, used that same system in their work on > commercial databases vs. Hadoop and referred to it as "System X" (so we did > the same, name-wise). Most for-pay database vendors' license agreements > have a clause known informally as the "DeWitt clause" that prohibit > publishing any performance results from their systems, so the tradition in > the DBMS academic benchmarking world is to not name the systems. This one > was a commercial shared-nothing parallel DBMS that is known to be a solid > performer (it wasn't just a strawman) and in the end the graduate student > who ran the numbers visited them on-site to get some help in properly > setting up the system. > > If you go to http://asterix.ics.uci.edu//publications.html you can find a > copy of the BigFUN benchmark paper (which this was a preliminary version > of) as well as some other papers that might be of interest. > > Cheers, > > Mike > On 8/7/19 10:52 AM, Karl Pietrzak wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > Looking at the home page (https://asterixdb.apache.org/index.html), I'm > wondering what parallel DBMS is AsterixDB being compared against? > > Is there more information on this benchmark, too? > > Thanks! > > -- > Karl > > -- Karl
