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Maybe one justified reason is that proper benchmarking can be hard. Especially running fair benchmarks between competing complex products. At some point some b
by jpalomaki 6y ago
Maybe one justified reason is that proper benchmarking can be hard. Especially running fair benchmarks between competing complex products.
At some point some big database vendors were showing full-page ads in prominent industry publications comparing database X to Y. This kind of clause in license may make publishing misleading performance figures a bit harder.
- GordonS 6y agoI do agree that benchmarking is hard, especially for databases that have so many knobs and buttons to tweak things to suit particular workloads. I think DB makers should take it as an opportunity to make inroads into developer communities, explaining how to configure and optimise, maybe even work together to create a standard test harness. Rather threatening to bankrupt anyone that talks about their database...