I suppose you could also go at it from the angle that it's an anti-competitive practice and no license should be able to restrict you from publishing truthful benchmarks.
Yeah I don't know, you'd need a lawyer to weigh in on that. Contract law and all the stuff around mutual agreements and consideration (the monetary kind) is pretty fundamental. You can always walk away and use a different database. If they put a set of x conditions on a doc and you sign it and hand over a huge check I'd guess a condition would have to be actually illegal for a court to invalidate just that part of the agreement.
You could knowingly publish incorrect, fictional, or fabricated results. When they sue, you won’t have violated any license. But at least oracle will look terrible.
Then they'll just sue for libel instead
You can clearly label it ad fictional and explain. Really the point here is to have some portrayal of oracle’s performance that is legal but pisses off Oracle.
This sounds like a terrible idea. Maybe if one is a 15 year old kid, sure, for shits and giggles. Why would a researcher do this, damaging their reputation in the process? And what good does it serve anyone?
Mostly because it’s a better world than one where Oracle can control the image of their shitty db.