Well, OK. I am not calling the author a fanboy, and i'll agree they probably aren't. There are at least 3 things here which invalidate this post because they m

Well, OK. I am not calling the author a fanboy, and i'll agree they probably aren't. There are at least 3 things here which invalidate this post because they make the numbers uncomparable: 1. Is the hardware adequate to run the tests, or does it favor one database? 2. Are both databases tuned to the use case? 3. Running only one type of action at a time is meaningless. Contention between reads and writes is what normally drives performance stats.