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This reminds me of some early MongoDB benchmarks. Claims of extremely high write throughput when really it's writing to memory and relying on mmap to eventually sync the data to disk.

Making write speed claims when you're not touching the disk is like bragging about how fast you can cat a file to /dev/null.




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