TPC Benchmark Roadmap 2012 -- Incorporating Recovery from Failures into a Data Integration Benchmark -- Two Firsts for the TPC: A Benchmark to Characterize Databases Virtualized in the Cloud, and a Publicly-Available, Complete End-to-End Reference Kit -- Adding a Temporal Dimension to the TPC-H Benchmark -- Performance Per Watt - Benchmarking Ways to Get More for Less -- Revisiting ETL Benchmarking: The Case for Hybrid Flows -- MulTe: A Multi-Tenancy Database Benchmark Framework -- BDMS Performance Evaluation: Practices, Pitfalls, and Possibilities -- Data Historians in the Data Management Landscape -- Scalable Generation of Synthetic GPS Traces with Real-Life Data Characteristics -- S3G2: A Scalable Structure-Correlated Social Graph Generator -- Benchmarking in the Cloud: What It Should, Can, and Cannot Be -- Characterizing Cloud Performance with TPC Benchmarks -- Setting the Direction for Big Data Benchmark Standards.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2012, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August 2012. It contains 10 selected peer-reviewed papers, 2 invited talks, a report from the TPC Public Relations Committee, and a report from the workshop on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB 2012. The papers present novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement, and characterization.