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Whenever I read an article like this, I often end up feeling that on the 'truthiness' spectrum the scale goes like this: lies, damn lies, statistics, benchmarks
by cs702 14y ago
Whenever I read an article like this, I often end up feeling that on the 'truthiness' spectrum the scale goes like this: lies, damn lies, statistics, benchmarks ;-)
- maratd 14y agoEvery public benchmark is a horrible blasphemous lie. The only benchmarks that are honest are the ones you conduct in private, with your very specific use case. There is no point in publishing them, because they're useless to everybody but you. Public benchmarks, on the other hand, are crafted as advertising for your favorite [fill in the blank].
- slurgfest 14y agoIf you generate some data which would be dishonest when published, it is also dishonest in private, except that you are only being dishonest to yourself and nobody can review your dishonesty. If you generate data which are honest in your use case, then you can publish them honestly as long as you are specific about your use case.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoAnd yet, there are useful statistics and useless ones, useful benchmarks and useless ones. The benchmarks posted here seem good enough to demonstrate a few truths about MemSQL for people that might be earlier been taken in by hype.