Introducing TPCx-HS: Industry's First Standard for Benchmarking Big Data Systems.- An Evaluation of Alternative Physical Graph Data Designs for Processing Interactive Social Networking Actions.- On Characterizing the Performance of Distributed Graph Computation Platforms.- An Industry Standard Performance Benchmark for Big Data: A Discussion of Big Bench.- A Scalable Framework for Universal Data Generation in Parallel.- Towards an Extensible Middleware for Database Benchmarks.- Scaling up Mixed Workloads: a Battle of Data Freshness, Flexibility and Scheduling.- Parameter Curation for Benchmark Queries.- Downtime-Free Live Migration in a Multitenant Database.- Performance analysis of database virtualization with the TPC-VMS benchmark.- A Query, a Minute: Evaluating Performance Isolation in Cloud Databases.- Composite Key Generation on a Shared-Nothing Architecture.