On: MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL

[aphyr]

Shared environments with virtualized IO are not good places to run benchmarks.

[ChikkaChiChi → aphyr]

I couldn't agree more, but its the closest to standardized testing we can get that everyone can use.

I HATE the idea personally, but I cannot think of a better way to start comparing apples to apples.

[aphyr → ChikkaChiChi]

I'd opt for the TPC workloads on standardized hardware: http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_price_perf_results.asp