A Survey on Benchmarks for Big Data and Some More Considerations

A big data benchmark suite is needed eagerly by customers, industry and academia recently. A number of prominent works in last several years are reviewed, their characteristics are introduced and shortcomings are analyzed. The authors also provide some suggestions on building the expected benchmark, including: component based benchmarks as well as end-to-end benchmarks should be used together to test distinct tools and test the system as a whole; workloads should be enriched with complex analytics to encompass different application scenarios; metrics other than performance metrics should also be considered.