Beyond Performance: Measuring the environmental impact of analytical databases

[samaysharma]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18980

[r1b]

Neat, curious how “multitenancy” impacts these calculations - thinking about big DWH players like BigQuery, Redshift etc - or even stuff like motherduck.

[AsianOtter]

The academic paper tests four obscure, non-production databases on an irrelevant benchmark (TPC-H) to provide far-fetched claims.

[thenaturalist → AsianOtter]

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.

[OnTheFlyJOINs]

Nice