A tool to create input for the popular TPC-C database benchmark.

This project is meant to help people wanting to run TPC-C but not use the official implementation that provides C code in a pdf file and makes use of embedded SQL. Instead, we strive for a clean, easy to extend implementation in C++. We generate portable csv files which can be loaded into any database system.

• Simple Makefile project with no external dependencies.
• Stable random: you get the same input data no matter where you run it.
• Missing: Date fields are dependent on current time and can only be written as time_since_epoch.

With the following command you can create TPC-C input with 5 warehouses. All files are stored in the my_tpcc_input directory. Note: The directory has to exist before starting the generator. But, no worries, if does not exists the generator will complain.

make
mkdir my_tpcc_input
./tpcc-generator 5 my_tpcc_input

Sample output:

I am loading TPCC data for 5 warehouses, hold on ..

Generating warehouse .. ok !
Generating districts .. ok !
Generating customers and their history .. ok !
Generating items .. ok !
Generating stocks .. ok !
Generating orders .. ok !

.. data generation completed successfully :)

You are free to choose any of the above licences when using the source code. However, I encourage you in a non binding way to follow the blessing from the SQLite folks:

May you do good and not evil.
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

Alexander van Renen