(MemSQL VP of Product Management here)

We didn't intend the benchmarks to be a sales pitch. We are proud of the performance of MemSQL and what it has been able to achieve in our customers' workloads. We wanted a way to show what we are capable of with concrete numbers. We chose the standard benchmarks because they are well understood, not because they were necessarily representative of any given customer.

In general, benchmarks are useful to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a product at a basic level and how it compares to its peers, but we strongly encourage anyone evaluating their options to do a proper POC comparison on their actual use cases.