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Re:Fear and Loathing in APL (2015) by coldtea on Sunday March 04, 2018 @05:44PM (#16517260)
>I wouldn't trust Marksblogg's tests. They focus on single-table "NYC Taxi" rides which don't represent most database use-cases.

No, but they represent a hell of a lot of big data use cases.

>He also claims he takes the fastest runtime of the queries over several runs, which is not how real tests are performed.

Assuming he already checks for data not being on fs cache, what else would you take? You don't want to measure other load going on in your system and impacting your queries.

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