>They are so scared that they prevent anyone with an Oracle license from publishing a benchmark of it I believe every single major database vendor does this. I

>They are so scared that they prevent anyone with an Oracle license from publishing a benchmark of it I believe every single major database vendor does this. It's called a DeWitt clause. The arguable justification is that it avoids misleading or incompetent benchmarks from slandering their product, but in reality it's so the only benchmarks published are the ones that favour them. I recently was looking to add Microsoft's new AppFabric (sort of like Redis) to an install, but strangely was finding zero performance metrics on it. I finally plowed ahead to discover that one of the first EULA demands is that you don't publish any benchmarks. I cancelled the install and moved on. Products that can't bear comparison instantly enter the land of the dubious.