No, FoundationDB which was posting some VERY impressive numbers before being acquired by Apple in March 2015. Here they were doing 15M writes/s on 32 16-core s

No, FoundationDB which was posting some VERY impressive numbers before being acquired by Apple in March 2015. Here they were doing 15M writes/s on 32 16-core servers, at a rate of 30,000 writes/s/core: http://web.archive.org/web/20150427041746/http://blog.foundationdb.com:80/databases-at-14.4mhz http://web.archive.org/web/20150427041746/http://blog.founda... FaunaDB managed 120,000 writes per second on 15 machines. https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-acid-transaction-performance https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-acid-transaction-performa... (Yes, not equivalent benchmarks, but that's still a 50x difference in magnitude.)