This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th
International Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking WBDB 2014 held in Potsdam Germany in August
2014. The 13 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous
submissions and cover topics such as benchmarks specifications and proposals Hadoop and
MapReduce - in the different context such as virtualization and cloud - as well as in-memory
data generation and graphs.