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+# OLTPBench Contributors
+
+## Primary Developers
++ [Carlo Curino](http://carlo.curino.us)
++ [Djellel Eddine Difallah](http://diuf.unifr.ch/main/xi/node/24)
++ [Andy Pavlo](http://www.cs.brown.edu/~pavlo)
++ [Philippe Cudre-Maroux](http://diuf.unifr.ch/main/xi/)
+
+## Early Contributors
++ [Visawee Angkanawaraphan](https://plus.google.com/100168643080449926875/)
++ [Evan P.C. Jones](http://evanjones.ca/)
++ [Sam Madden](http://db.csail.mit.edu/madden/)
++ [Yang Zhang](http://yz.mit.edu/)
++ [Zhe Zhang](http://www.linkedin.com/in/zhezhangbrown)
+
+## Additional Contributions
+
+We also acknowledge contributions from the following collaborators:
+
++ Dimitri Vorona
++ [Florian Funke](http://www3.in.tum.de/~funkef/)
++ [Michael Seibold](http://www3.in.tum.de/~seibold/)

README.md

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 # OLTPBench
 
-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. 
+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. 
 
-OLTPBenchmark is a multi-threaded load generator. The framework is designed to be able to produce variable rate, variable mixture load against any JDBC-enabled relational database. The framework also provides data collection features, e.g., per-transaction-type latency and throughput logs.
+OLTPBenchmark is a multi-threaded load generator. The framework is designed to be able to produce variable rate,
+variable mixture load against any JDBC-enabled relational database. The framework also provides data collection
+features, e.g., per-transaction-type latency and throughput logs.
 
 Together with the framework we provide the following OLTP/Web benchmarks:
-  * TPC-C
+  * [TPC-C](http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/)
   * Wikipedia
   * Synthetic Resource Stresser 
   * Twitter
   * Epinions.com
-  * TATP
-  * !AuctionMark
+  * [TATP](http://tatpbenchmark.sourceforge.net/)
+  * [AuctionMark](http://hstore.cs.brown.edu/projects/auctionmark/)
   * SEATS
-  * YCSB
+  * [YCSB](https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB)
   * JPAB (Hibernate)
 
+This framework is design to allow easy extension, we provide stub code that a contributor can use to include a new
+benchmark, leveraging all the system features (logging, controlled speed, controlled mixture, etc.)
 
-This framework is design to allow easy extension, we provide stub code that a contributor can use to include a new benchmark, leveraging all the system features (logging, controlled speed, controlled mixture, etc..)
+If you are using this benchmark for your papers or for your work, please cite us, and let us know so we can add you
+to our [list of publications](http://oltpbenchmark.com/wiki/index.php?title=Publications_Using_OLTPBenchmark).
 
-If you want to contribute a new benchmark please contact: carlo.curino@gmail.com 
+Please visit the project homepage for anything other than source code: <http://oltpbenchmark.com>
 
-If you are using this benchmark for your papers or for your work, please cite us, and let us know so we can add you to our publications-using-us page: http://code.google.com/p/oltpbenchmark/wiki/Publications
+## Dependencies
 
-Please visit the project homepage for anything other than source code: http://oltpbenchmark.com
++ Java (+1.6)