<s>
The	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	I-Application
</s>
<s>
Cloud	O
Serving	O
Benchmark	O
(	O
YCSB	B-Application
)	O
is	O
an	O
open-source	O
specification	O
and	O
program	O
suite	O
for	O
evaluating	O
retrieval	O
and	O
maintenance	O
capabilities	O
of	O
computer	O
programs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
often	O
used	O
to	O
compare	O
the	O
relative	O
performance	O
of	O
NoSQL	B-General_Concept
database	O
management	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
original	O
benchmark	O
was	O
developed	O
by	O
workers	O
in	O
the	O
research	O
division	O
of	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	I-Application
</s>
<s>
YCSB	B-Application
was	O
contrasted	O
with	O
the	O
TPC-H	O
benchmark	O
from	O
the	O
Transaction	B-General_Concept
Processing	I-General_Concept
Performance	I-General_Concept
Council	I-General_Concept
,	O
with	O
YCSB	B-Application
being	O
called	O
a	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
benchmark	O
while	O
TPC-H	O
is	O
a	O
decision	B-Application
support	I-Application
system	I-Application
benchmark	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
YCSB	B-Application
was	O
used	O
by	O
DBMS	O
vendors	O
for	O
"	O
benchmark	O
marketing	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
been	O
used	O
in	O
scholarly	O
or	O
tutorial	O
discussions	O
,	O
particularly	O
for	O
Apache	B-Language
HBase	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
been	O
used	O
for	O
multiple-product	O
comparisons	O
by	O
industry	O
observers	O
such	O
as	O
Network	O
World	O
(	O
comparing	O
Cassandra	B-Application
,	O
MongoDB	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
)	O
,	O
Thumbtack	O
Technologies	O
(	O
comparing	O
Aerospike	B-Operating_System
,	O
Cassandra	B-Application
,	O
Couchbase	B-Operating_System
,	O
and	O
MongoDB	B-Application
)	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
Polytechnic	O
Institute	O
and	O
University	O
of	O
Coimbra	O
(	O
comparing	O
Cassandra	B-Application
,	O
HBase	B-Language
,	O
Elasticsearch	B-Application
,	O
MongoDB	B-Application
,	O
Oracle	B-Application
NoSQL	I-Application
,	O
OrientDB	B-Operating_System
,	O
Redis	B-Operating_System
,	O
Scalaris	O
,	O
Tarantool	B-Operating_System
,	O
and	O
Voldemort	B-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SanDisk	O
Corporation	O
published	O
results	O
measured	O
on	O
the	O
Oracle	B-Application
NoSQL	I-Application
Database	I-Application
.	O
</s>
