Xephon-B is a novel time series benchmark tool. With special workload to emulate real world use case of tsdb. And it can also be used by database researchers and vendors with continuous integration. Its server can also be hosted in your own infrastructure to share your benchmark results. This is a lighting talk on CMPS232 class. The project source can be found in https://github.com/xephonhq (under development)

1. A time series database benchmark suite
Zheyuan Chen, Pinglei Guo

2. Time Series Data
- Sequences of measurements
- Ordered by timestamps

3. Examples
- Monitoring
- Stock price
- Sensor
- Internet of Things
- User activity

4. Time Series Databases (TSDBs)

5. TSDBs are special !
- Time-centric
- Workloads
- Data structures

6. We need a benchmark tool to make
the right choice

7. Old benchmark won’t work (Hi YCSB)

8. Here comes Xephon-B

9. Different workloads to emulate real use case of TSDB
Type Write Read Range Meta Precision
Monitoring Extreme high high latest few second
IoT Extreme high high long few nanosecond
User activity High low long large minute

10. Battery included
● One command local setup
● Auto deploy to cloud service providers
● Intuitive visualization

11. Continuous integration
● Integrate with existing CI systems easily. (ie: Travis)
● Know the performance impact of every line of code
● Evaluate pull requests

12. Share your result
● Your result is also time series data
● Compare with peers and the old you, shown them you are the best
● Submit your result and get a permanent URL
● Host on your own server, Xephon-B is all open source!

13. A Time series database benchmark suite
Make the right choice