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Title: SmartBench: A Benchmark For Data Management In Smart Spaces
This paper proposes SmartBench, a benchmark focusing on queries resulting from (near) real-time applications and longer-term analysis of IoT data. SmartBench, derived from a deployed smart building monitoring system, is comprised of: 1) An extensible schema that captures the fundamentals of an IoT smart space; 2) A set of representative queries focusing on analytical tasks; and 3) A data generation tool that generates large amounts of synthetic sensor and semantic data based on seed data collected from a real system. We present an evaluation of seven representative database sys- tems and highlight some interesting findings that can be considered when deciding what database technologies to use under different types of IoT query workloads.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1925610
NSF-PAR ID:
10184924
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Volume:
13
Issue:
11
ISSN:
2150-8097
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1807-1820
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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