interactive

SNB Driver - Part 1

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SNB , DRIVER , TPC-C , INTERACTIVE

In this multi-part blog we consider the challenge of running the LDBC Social Network Interactive Benchmark (LDBC SNB) workload in parallel, i.e. the design of the workload driver that will issue the queries against the System Under Test (SUT). We go through design principles that were implemented for the LDBC SNB workload generator/load tester (simply referred to as driver). Software and documentation for this driver is available here: …

Social Network Benchmark Goals

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SNB , DATAGEN , INTERACTIVE , BI , GRAPHALYTICS

Social Network interaction is amongst the most natural and widely spread activities in the internet society, and it has turned out to be a very useful way for people to socialise at different levels (friendship, professional, hobby, etc.). As such, Social Networks are well understood from the point of view of the data involved and the interaction required by their actors. Thus, the concepts of friends of friends, or retweet are well established …

Getting Started With SNB

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SNB , INTERACTIVE , DATAGEN

In a previous blog post titled “Is SNB like Facebook’s LinkBench?”, Peter Boncz discusses the design philosophy that shapes SNB and how it compares to other existing benchmarks such as LinkBench. In this post, I will briefly introduce the essential parts forming SNB, which are DATAGEN, the LDBC execution driver and the workloads.

DATAGEN

DATAGEN is the data generator used by all the workloads of SNB. Here we introduced the …

The LDBC Social Network Benchmark (SNB) is composed of three distinct workloads, interactive, business intelligence and graph analytics. This post introduces the interactive workload.

The benchmark measures the speed of queries of medium complexity against a social network being constantly updated. The queries are scoped to a user’s social environment and potentially access data associated with the friends or a user and their friends.

This …

Making It Interactive

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SNB , BENCHMARKING , TPC , SPARQL , INTERACTIVE

Synopsis: Now is the time to finalize the interactive part of the Social Network Benchmark (SNB). The benchmark must be both credible in a real social network setting and pose new challenges. There are many hard queries but not enough representation for what online systems in fact do. So, the workload mix must strike a balance between the practice and presenting new challenges.

It is about to be showtime for LDBC. The initial installment of the …