[jhugg]

I didn't mean to claim anyone will be struggling to decide between VoltDB and Cassandra and then choose VoltDB based on the benchmarks we did. I think that's as ridiculous as you do.

Our point, which perhaps I made poorly, was twofold. 1. You can be both fast and SQL. Nothing about the language itself was ever the bottleneck. 2. VoltDB isn't just for big complicated transactions. You can use SQL for KV-type workloads and perform.

There's 100 other reasons to pick one data layer over another, and the best tool will be different for different problems.