Beyond Performance: Measuring the environmental impact of analytical databases(arxiv.org)
arxiv.org
Beyond Performance: Measuring the environmental impact of analytical databases
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18980
4 comments
Neat, curious how “multitenancy” impacts these calculations - thinking about big DWH players like BigQuery, Redshift etc - or even stuff like motherduck.
The academic paper tests four obscure, non-production databases on an irrelevant benchmark (TPC-H) to provide far-fetched claims.
Way to comment on research?
> four obscure, non-production databases
I guess you wanna have a word with thousands of DuckDB users?
Also Starrocks is not really niche?
> irrelevant benchmark (TPC-H)
Which is widely used in the industry... probably despite not being perfect.
> provide far-fetched claims.
And put them out there to be disseminated by others.
Keeping and extending what works, discarding the rest.
That's how we learn.
I wish you more optimism and curiosity.
> four obscure, non-production databases
I guess you wanna have a word with thousands of DuckDB users?
Also Starrocks is not really niche?
> irrelevant benchmark (TPC-H)
Which is widely used in the industry... probably despite not being perfect.
> provide far-fetched claims.
And put them out there to be disseminated by others.
Keeping and extending what works, discarding the rest.
That's how we learn.
I wish you more optimism and curiosity.
Nice