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> Where are you getting those figures?

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2026-06-08-how-fast-is-doltlite...

God that had a lot of llm'isms. Couldnt get through it with all the repeats and info bloat.

Dunno if I'd have directly attributed the writing to LLMs had I not read this, but I wouldn't have opened the link otherwise. Holy crap, that reads just like the documentation / explainers that I have Claude write for future agents or to remind me what I had it do in the future.

Ah yes so the 4x slower isn’t really a real world case and you’d have to explicitly measure yours - it’s not a fixed slowdown but depends on table size - and it’s for doing many many single inserts in a row, which you’d be batching either way.

That's probably why they gave a range in their original comment.

Which isn’t correct, either for real world cases or worst case linear inserts.

How is it not correct?

Sure the benchmark does not measure a real world application, but I never claimed it was.

Do you have a better benchmark to share?

I thought I was being charitable by using a benchmark published by the database's own authors.

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