Disclaimer: I’m not a big fan of benchmark data.  I find it doesn’t provide us as much value in the real world as we’d like to think it does.  As Cary Milsap says, “You can’t hardware your way out of a software problem” and I find that many folks think that if they just get the fastest hardware, their software problems will go away and this just isn’t true.  Sooner or later, it’s going to catch up with you-  and it rarely tells you what your real database workload needs to run most efficiently or what might be running in…