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.