Both Microsoft and Oracle prohibit benchmarking: https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/ https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/ Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.

Both Microsoft and Oracle prohibit benchmarking: https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/ https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/ Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt#The_%22DeWitt_Clause%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt#The_%22DeWitt_Cla... It's plainly illegal, but nobody who has built their business on Oracle DB wants to piss off Oracle the company with a lawsuit, and it doesn't appear any legal activists want to either.