<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">All benchmarks are biased. They are less likely to be biased by business relationships than by skills imbalances. You can’t conduct an unbiased benchmark between two products unless you have the same skill and knowledge level in both, and that’s pretty difficult to achieve.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Michael Kay</div><div class="">Saxonica</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Jun 2015, at 22:24, daniela florescu <<a href="mailto:dflorescu@me.com" class="">dflorescu@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">And this is yet another public and very honest answer when I commented that a “third party” doing a benchmark<div class="">should not, in theory, have a business relationship with ANY of the vendors. Otherwise, not credible, so waste of time.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">==============================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245);" class="">Daniela - the fact that we are partnered with MarkLogic and Couchbase (so that we can better serve our clients who use those platforms) has no bearing on our ability to conduct benchmarks with independence.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245);" class="">==========</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245);" class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="line-height: 14px;" class="">I guess it’s not clear to everyone what a “third party benchmark” usually means in Computer Science :-))</span></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245);" class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="line-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245);" class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="line-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></span></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245);" class="">Have a great weekend everyone, best</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 243, 245);" class="">Dana</span></font></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class=""><a href="mailto:talk@x-query.com" class="">talk@x-query.com</a><br class="">http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>