PDXPUG Talk: Benchbase and Temporal Foreign Keys

Last Thursday I gave a talk at PDXPUG about using Benchbase to compare the performance of temporal foreign keys. It was a lot of fun, and a really good turnout. There were even folks from Seattle and Bend. After listening for an hour, people stuck around and talked about databases and benchmarks for another two, then the last few holdouts went out for drinks for another hour and a half. At least half the audience were way more qualified to give the talk than me. To my surprise Mark Callaghan was there, who has published database benchmarks non-stop for years.

I had two major goals: to document how to use Benchbase and to report on comparing three implementations of temporal foreign keys. A couple minor goals were to share the start of a broader general-purpose benchmark for temporal databases and to talk about a benchmarking methodology, especially mistakes I made and how I tried to improve.

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