Strudel: A Framework for Transaction Performance Analyses on SQL/NoSQL Systems

The paper introduces Strudel, a development and execution framework for transactional workloads both on SQL and NoSQL systems. Whereas a rich set of benchmarks and performance analysis platforms have been developed for SQLbased systems (RDBMSs), it is challenging for application developers to evaluate both SQL and NoSQL systems for their specific needs. The Strudel framework, which we have released as open-source software, helps such developers (as well as providers of NoSQL stores) to build, customize, and share benchmarks that can run on various SQL/NoSQL systems. We describe Strudel’s architecture and APIs, its components for supporting various NoSQL stores (e.g., HBase, MongoDB), example benchmarks included in the release, and performance experiments to demonstrate usefulness of the framework.