Big Data technologies like Hadoop has become an important part of the enterprise IT ecosystem. Introduced in 2014, the TPC Express Benchmark HS (TPCx-HS) Version 1 is industry’s first ever standard for benchmarking big data systems. It was developed to provide an objective measure of hardware, operating system and commercial Apache Hadoop File System API compatible software distributions, and to provide the industry with verifiable performance, price-performance and availability metrics. Even though the modeled application is simple, the results are highly relevant to hardware and software dealing with Big Data systems in general. TPCx-HS stresses both the hardware and software stacks including the execution engine (MapReduce or Spark) and Hadoop Filesystem API compatible layers. This workload can be used to assess a broad range of system topologies and implementation of Hadoop clusters. The TPCx-HS benchmark can be used to assess a broad range of system topologies and implementation methodologies in a technically rigorous and directly comparable, in a vendor-neutral manner.

• The current TPCx-HS Version 1 specification can be found on the TPC Documentation Webpage.