I could see myself there in a bowler hat with a fistful of racing chits screaming “go, Postgres, go.”
I’d love to see a competition were the developers of each database got to use the same hardware and data then tune the hell out of their configs, queries, and indices.
Red Bull could sponsor it. I’d buy a T-shirt.
You'd want to get some funding to run the tests (or maybe solicit Google or Amazon to see if you could get the instance time donated once a month or something.
If you started small, with maybe a portion of these features, and then scaled up over time, you might actually get to the point where you had tests that emulated a power failure, or master/slave and dual master scenarios and how they handle certain common network errors (split-brain). That would be an amazing resource.
Edit: It occurs to me I probably should have read more of the article, since this is sort of what they are doing already...
It would probably require a few different categories with some sort of output assertion to validate the query performed right and a means of tracking CPU, usage ram usage, and execution time.
It would be cool to see things like disaster recovery and chaos proofing as well.
By the way, there seems to be a raffle of free T-shirts (quite biased, as there's only the ArangoDB logo on them) in exchange for taking part in a survey:
Like esports, for DBAs
On second thought that might be a bad name