SBP: Storage Benchmark Protocol

The Storage Benchmark Protocol (SBP) is defined, designed and implementation details are discussed in this research paper. The SBP is used for an optimal performance benchmarking of high performance distributed big data storage systems. The SBP defines a network communication format and methods to consolidate the performance benchmarking parameters from single/multiple storage performance benchmarking entities/nodes. The SBM (Storage Benchmark Monitor) implements the SBP as a server. The SBP client is implemented as part of the SBK (Storage Benchmark Kit) framework.