This document discusses BigDataBench, an open source project for big data benchmarking. BigDataBench includes six real-world data sets and 19 workloads that cover common big data applications and preserve the four V's of big data. The workloads were chosen to represent typical application domains like search engines, social networks, and e-commerce. BigDataBench aims to provide a standardized benchmark for evaluating big data systems, architectures, and software stacks. It has been used in several case studies for workload characterization and performance evaluation of different hardware platforms for big data workloads.