“The benchmark numbers are completely wrong for both databases”
Well, the author cares enough about RethinkDB to test it, even if he's a mongodb fan, even if his first benchmark was wrong, he was right to publish it: you all helped him when you pinpointed the problems in his tests... Thanks you for that.I don't see any marketing here, just the "do your own benchmark" best practice, and the "share with community" best practice... Does it make it a perfect benchmark? No, but at least he tried... and the author has corrected the discrepancies since then.Now imagine the benchmark was against [your favorite DB here] with even stronger results against RethinkDB. Notice how the most upvoted comment is joking about MongoDB. The second one is a pro-mysql comment. What's the point? Would it have been a better benchmark if it read "mysql is 10x faster than RethinkDB?" or "MongoDB is even slower than RethinkDB"?