I worked on benchmarking in the past, including TPC benchmarks.

When you see a blog post like this, never interpret it as “database A is X% faster than database B”, there are just too many factors.

It’s more like “we put focused work into performance improvements and we expect certain workloads to perform better than the previous release”.

This seems like a good project, and benchmarking is a good way for a development team to iterate on performance. Just want to get my take out there.