alt Hacker NewsOracle's claims about speed-ups of their database are just that, claims. Their licenses explicitly disallow benchmarking, so basically we are legally bound to rely on their word.
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masklinn • today at 10:12 AM
TFA is a post by the author of the algorithm, talking about the performance they originally predicted and later observed after implementing it while they were working at oracle, now that the patent has expired and anyone can implement the algorithm.
So:
- you are calling them a liar
- and are asserting you can not evaluate the claim even though you can implement and benchmark the algorithm in whatever DBMS you favour
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Their license only disallows publishing the result of a benchmark
But you were always allowed to run your own benchmarks internally.
Back then, you could have installed 10gR1 and 10gR2 and compare the sort performance on identical data sets and queries.