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>>pavel_+(OP)
> If we look at major commercial databases today, two out of the three big names in commericial databases forbid publishing benchmarks.

I see many people bashing Oracle/Ellison, but they are not alone in this. MS does the same thing as well. The really worrying thing is that such practices are deemed to be legal. The entire principle of Free Markets is underpinned by consumers having accurate information about the goods they are purchasing. Having licensing agreements that are expressly designed to prevent the dissemination of product-information, goes against everything that Capitalism and Free-Markets stand for.

The fact that there are no government regulations against such behavior, is precisely what leads people to think that we are living in a Corporatocracy, and not a Free Market.

>>whack+2d
If you have enough load to make database performance an important issue then it's easy enough to benchmark SQL Server and Oracle (or any other database). Just purchase a regular license and run a performance test on your own application. Those vendor license restrictions on publishing benchmarks are annoying but realistically the minor performance differences on typical workloads don't matter to most customers and the customers who actually care have the technical sophistication to figure it out for themselves.