This comment instantly reminded me of recent QuestDB's benchmark and the rebuttal by Clickhouse. Both make a great read:
4Bn rows/sec query benchmark: ClickHouse vs. QuestDB vs. Timescale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31585563
No, QuestDB is not Faster than ClickHouse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31767858