Eighteenth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking

(TPCTC 2026)
August 31, 2026

in conjunction with VLDB 2026




Conference Program

August 31, 2026




All times are local times for
Boston, USA


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Call For Papers

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit organization established in August 1988. Over the past two decades, the TPC has had a significant impact on the computing industry’s use of industry-standard benchmarks. Vendors use TPC benchmarks to illustrate performance competitiveness for their existing products, and to improve and monitor the performance of their products under development. Many buyers use TPC benchmark results as points of comparison when purchasing new computing systems. The information technology landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, challenging industry experts and researchers to develop innovative techniques for evaluation, measurement and characterization of complex systems. The TPC remains committed to developing new benchmark standards to keep pace, and one vehicle for achieving this objective is the sponsorship of the Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC). Over the last seventeen years we have held TPCTC successfully in conjunction with VLDB.


With the eighteenth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2026) proposal, we strive to excel the success of previous workshops by encouraging researchers and industry experts to present and debate novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation and benchmarking for emerging technology areas. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. We also encourage the submission of extended abstracts, position statement papers and lessons learned in practice. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and selected papers will be considered for future TPC benchmark developments.
 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • TBD
  • GenAI (e.g. LLM, Stable Diffusion)
  • Hyperscale Datacenter
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Cloud Computing
  • Social Media Infrastructure
  • Internet of Things
  • Blockchain
  • Lessons learned in practice using TPC workloads
  • Database Optimizations
  • Disaggregated Data Center
  • Sustainability
  • Virtualization
  • In-memory databases
  • Complex event processing
  • Hybrid workloads
  • General enhancements to TPC workloads

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. We also encourage the submission of extended abstracts, position statement papers, and lessons learned in practice. The length of a paper should not exceed 16 pages. Papers should follow Springer's Formatting Guidelines for LNCS
All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format to: Easychair (TPCTC26)


Important Dates

Abstract due: TBD
Papers due: TBD
Notification of acceptance: TBD
Conference day: August 31st, 2026         


Conference Venue and Registration
Please visit the VLDB2026 conference web site at: http://vldb.org/2026

Proceedings
Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Selected papers may be considered for future TPC benchmark developments.
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TPCTC 2026 Organization (not finalized yet)

General Chairs and Contacts
Raghunath Nambiar, AMD, USA, raghu.nambiar@amd.com
Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA, meikel.poess@oracle.com

Program Committee
Ahmad Ghazal, PingCAP, USA
Ajay Dholakia, Lenovo, USA
Andrew Bond, Red Hat, USA
Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada
Hanumath Rao Maduri, Workday, USA
Harry Le, University of Houston, USA
John Poelman, IBM, USA
Karthik Krishna, InfobellIT Solutions, India
Klaus-Dieter Lange, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA
Michael Brey, Oracle, USA
Miro Hodak, AMD, USA
Nicholas Wakou, Dell, USA
Paul Cao, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA
Pratyush Agnihotri, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Rodrigo D. Escobar, Univ. Texas at San Antonio, USA
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, University of Southern California, USA
Tariq Magdon-Ismail, VMware, USA
Tilmann Rabl, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany

Publicity Committee
Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA
Paul Cao, HPE, USA
Rodrigo Escobar, Intel, USA
Gary Little, Nutanix, USA
Nirmala Sundararajan, Dell, USA
Michael Majdalany, SBIMS, USA
Forrest Carman, Owen Media, USA
Andreas Hotea, Hotea Solutions, USA



About the TPC
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit organization that defines transaction processing and database benchmarks and distributes vendor-neutral performance data to the industry. Additional information is available at: tpc.org.