On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems are the core of the information systems that support the daily operations of organizations. The nonexistence of a practical way to evaluate dependability attributes, typically leads systems administrators to concentrate on performance tuning and neglect the aspects related to dependability. Transactional systems industry holds a well-established infrastructure for performance evaluation, where the benchmarks from the Transactional Performance Processing Council (TPC) represent the most successful benchmarking initiative of all computer industry....