That's pretty cool, and roughly what I saw in my emulator - maybe my fumbling actually did it right :) And very much agreed, Realm is pretty impressive, and micro-benchmarks like this aren't all that useful.
Have you set up a pull request / issue by any chance? It paints Realm in a bit worse of a light, but hopefully they'll merge it in and update the site.
That being said I still find the speed of Realm pretty impressive. And it's hard to gauge real world performance from this test. In my experience the real bottle necks around insert are upsets and establishing maintaining relationships.
For reference here are the benchmarks without reusing sqlite statements.
And with statement reuse Interesting side note: FMDB seems to be spending just as much time finding the cached statement as sqlite takes to prepare a new one. I didn't expect that. I haven't dug into it at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if this due to the fact that the insert statement is relatively simple.EDIT: Just fixed up formatting for the results