I 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 mak

I 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...