I should clarify a few points: The motive for releasing it open source is so that the code base will become better and more useful. The goal is not to make mon

I should clarify a few points: The motive for releasing it open source is so that the code base will become better and more useful. The goal is not to make money. If a competing code base came in later and did a better job, this would be a good thing. As for benchmarks - its not a database. Its a tool to much more easily create index tables, search against those tables, and keep those index tables accurate as you update your objects/documents. Especially the updating part is extremely hard to do manually. As an added bonus/side-effect, you can easily store your data across multiple database. A pattern I like is to store indexes on an on-site Redis server with 128gb of RAM, store the serialized objects/documents in an on-site Cassandra cluster and on Amazon S3. If your hardware ever goes down, you can use the S3 backup to restore your data in Cassandra and your indexes in Redis. The performance part comes from the database itself.