These cloud-y benchmarks are a joke. 1. What is the point of benchmarking so many writes? Instead, give us the cost of write-read and a few use cases: analysis

These cloud-y benchmarks are a joke. 1. What is the point of benchmarking so many writes? Instead, give us the cost of write-read and a few use cases: analysis, data mining, etc. And what of the bandwidth costs? 2. Say you are running a moderately intensive application that needs to be up 10 hours a day. $330/hour x 10 = $3300. Multiply that by a few days and where does that leave you? Suddenly having your own infrastructure with kit like this: http://www.fusionio.com/products http://www.fusionio.com/products in it is not such a bad idea! This also means you don't have to use any funny NoSQL products, can use standard programming, non cloudy infrastructure and a decent RDBMs setup that non Silicon-valley, non-hipster humans have a chance of understanding and reliably maintaining.