First established in August 1988 the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has
shaped the landscape of modern transaction processing and database benchmarks over two decades.
Now the world is in the midst of an extraordinary information explosion led by rapid growth in
the use of the Internet and connected devices. Both user-generated data and enterprise data
levels continue to grow ex- nentially. With substantial technological breakthroughs Moore's
law will continue for at least a decade and the data storage capacities and data transfer
speeds will continue to increase exponentially. These have challenged industry experts and
researchers to develop innovative techniques to evaluate and benchmark both hardware and
software technologies. As a result the TPC held its First Conference on Performance Evaluation
and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2009) on August 24 in Lyon France in conjunction with the 35th
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009). TPCTC 2009 provided industry
experts and researchers with a forum to present and debate novel ideas and methodologies in
performance evaluation measurement and characteri- tion for 2010 and beyond. This book
contains the proceedings of this conference including 16 papers and keynote papers from
Michael Stonebraker and Karl Huppler.
