They are orthogonal to a point :) Thats why people want to see a real world dataset and queries. If it's performance is 100 times less than an alternative I do

They are orthogonal to a point :) Thats why people want to see a real world dataset and queries. If it's performance is 100 times less than an alternative I don't care if it can scale out. Also if it can scale out to 10 nodes it tell's me little about how it will perform with 100 nodes. If It takes 30 sec for complex query on a production dataset I really don't care if I can run 1000 30 sec. queries in parallel if I need that query to run in 50ms on avg and to never run more than 200ms