We definitely recommend everyone make their own benchmarks, reflective of their own use-cases. Kevin (who was deeply involved in OrmLite) made a great contribution to this community effort with that post, but we still see many people on iOS — and on Android — experiencing massive speedups when moving to Realm. Hence us saying “usually faster” because that’s reflective of what people tell us in aggregate, although some microbenchmarks will always disagree. As always, your mileage may vary, and we trust people to make their own opinion of Realm’s performance, ease of use, and anything else we try to focus on.