1) FYI: Oracle Enterprise is basically dead in Silicon Valley for new projects (because it doesn't scale financially.) Every Oracle DBA I know transitioned to M

1) FYI: Oracle Enterprise is basically dead in Silicon Valley for new projects (because it doesn't scale financially.) Every Oracle DBA I know transitioned to MySQL over a decade ago, and they look at you funny when you ask about Oracle. 2) Oracle Enterprise is free to use for dev/qa, but each prod instance costs money. 3) The contraint on publishing benchmark results is not what devs think. It's to prevent poorly conducted bm efforts, not really to hide anything. A vendor can't run around defending itself against non-DBAs doing benchmarks. Most of the links to results on HN admit, "We tuned our fave database, and used the defaults for the other database." Seriously. Having said that, you can publish benchmark scripts, which is what MySQL did. That script moved the whole industry forward wrt reliability and performance, as MySQL was the only database that could pass initially. :) Source: DBA.