If they are a purely academic project then why compare yourself to a commercial alternative? Those are two different worlds. I seem to recall that they specific

If they are a purely academic project then why compare yourself to a commercial alternative? Those are two different worlds. I seem to recall that they specifically mentioned somewhere that it's not just for academic interest, otherwise I wouldn't have even bothered to ask for benchmarks. And who says that I won't use it? I like experimental stuff, I'd totally use it if they show some fancy performance numbers and maybe implement a document store on top of the key value abstraction. And why would I dislike coordination-free stuff? I just have the feeling that aerospike is probably as good as it gets but it's not based on any testing.