Nayeem Zen

The publish/subscribe paradigm has found wide acceptance in a broad variety of use cases that differ dramatically in the character-istics of their workloads. Many different systems have been devel-oped both by academia as well as industry, but there is no definitive benchmark, which enables a fair comparison between the different systems. In this demo, we present PSBench, a benchmark specification and suite for publish/subscribe systems that covers a broad variety of publish/subscribe workloads and scenarios. The benchmark suite is extensible and generic, but the specification targets social games. Social games are the ideal use case since they have a very broad range of requirements and produce a variety of publications and subscriptions. We draw from our experience in massive multi-player online games to construct a highly realistic workload. In this demo, we present the toolchain, the workload and the graph-ical interfaces that enable an extensive performance evaluation of publish/subscribe systems