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Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases

24 May 1994

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Evaluating the performance of database systems often requires generating synthetic databases -- ones which have certain statistical properties, but are otherwise filled with dummy information. When evaluating different database designs, it is often necessary to generate several databases and evaluate each design. As database sizes grow to Terabytes, generation often takes longer than the evaluation. This paper catalogs database generation techniques.