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 # OLTPBench
 
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 Benchmarking is incredibly useful, yet endlessly painful. This benchmark suite is the result of a group of
 Phd/post-docs/professors getting together and combining their workloads/frameworks/experiences/efforts. We hope this
 will save other people's time, and will provide an extensible platform, that can be grown in an open-source fashion.