> Here is the thing, at least in the case of database software, the people that are competent to set up a benchmark correctly are fairly rare. The people that h

> Here is the thing, at least in the case of database software, the people that are competent to set up a benchmark correctly are fairly rare. The people that have the budget for the hardware are even more rare. The last thing the world needs is for the web to be polluted by so many incompetent "benchmarks" performed by the clueless that you can't find the authoritative information that you need to do your job. If these apparently incompetent people running the benchmarks are also the incompetent people creating the schema's and queries out in the wild then the benchmarks are still worthwhile. I want to know what performance I can expect, not what I can expect when the environment is highly tuned by rare experts that will never touch any of the systems I have to deal with.