This paper details the steps followed to benchmark a cash management platform of an investment bank using a generic benchmarking solution called BABEL. We highlight the modular design of BABEL, and present an evaluation methodology and best practices for its application on real world systems. The performance results collected with BABEL for the cash management use case enables to define the right tradeoffs in terms of consistency and availability, in a way that respects the service level agreements defined by the clients. On the other hand, we show that the overhead caused by BABEL’s integration with the platform at runtime is very negligible.

本文详细介绍了使用称为BABEL的通用基准测试解决方案对投资银行的现金管理平台进行基准测试的步骤。我们重点介绍了BABEL的模块化设计，并提出了其在实际系统中的应用的评估方法和最佳实践。与BABEL一起针对现金管理用例收集的性能结果，可以在尊重客户定义的服务水平协议的方式下，在一致性和可用性方面定义正确的权衡。另一方面，我们表明，BABEL在运行时与平台的集成所引起的开销可以忽略不计。