Public BI Benchmark: 46 Tableau Workbooks with Real Data and Queries

46 public Tableau workbooks containing 206 tables with a total size of 386 GB uncompressed. The benchmark, derived from the DBTest'18 paper by Tableau, provides real data and SQL queries collected from Tableau Public visualizations. It was processed by Bogdan Ghita of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to run on different database systems.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking database query execution times based on the collected real-world SQL queries.
• Testing data loading and schema compatibility using the provided .csv files and .sql schema definitions.
• Analyzing query patterns and data relationships from real business intelligence workbooks.

Strengths

• Contains 206 real-world tables derived from 46 distinct Tableau workbooks.
• Provides both full data files (41 GB compressed) and representative samples for initial inspection.
• Includes SQL queries and schema files, enabling reproducible database system testing.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Tableau Public workbooks, processed by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Collection Method

Workbooks were downloaded, converted to .csv files, and SQL queries were extracted from Tableau logs.