Linked Data Benchmark Council: 12 years of fostering competition in the graph processing space

The Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC) was originally created in 2012 as part of a European Union-funded project of the same name. Its original goal was to design standard benchmarks for graph processing and to facilitate competition among vendors to drive innovation in the field. 12 years later, the LDBC organization has 20+ member organizations (including database, hardware, and cloud vendors) and has five standard benchmark workloads, with frequent audit requests from vendors. Moreover, LDBC extended its scope behind benchmarking to cover graph schemas and graph query languages, and has a liaison arrangement with the ISO SQL/GQL standards committee. In this talk, I will reflect on the LDBC's organizational history, goals, and main technical achievements.