Great question! :) Rich wrote: > > In short to do a proper benchmark, there needs to be some measure of > comparing apples to apples and ec2 to hardware boxes > is like apples to ducks - not even the same type of creature - IMHO Looking at benchmarks based on efficiency measures of energy consumed and physical space consumed per unit (query, bandwidth, etc.) might give a good way to benchmark the two different hardware schemes. This might be off topic though. Cheers, Charles Uchu Strader