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The DeWitt clause

Why database licences spent forty years forbidding you to publish a benchmark, and what that did to the evidence.

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What an audited benchmark looks like

LDBC has independent certified auditors read the code and run the thing. Almost nothing else in this field does.

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What ClickBench doesn't measure

Its 43 queries touch one table and never join. Here is the method this publication runs under, argued from that.

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Who pays for the numbers you cite

A survey of where data-infrastructure benchmarks come from, and how often the answer is a company selling the winner.