[jayleeg]

But they didn't set the temperature reading to anything that would advantage their tests. Without access to the original data they simply generated a dataset as close to the original dataset and volume as possible. The fact they took a few sentences talking about the temperature doesn't equate to invalidating the test.

Looking at this your way - Scylla used an INT, Altinity used a Decimal type with specialized compression (T64). I can tell you that this would have hampered ClickHouse and advantaged Scylla. It's the opposite of what you're saying. They actually performed this benchmark with one arm tied behind their back.

It's a funny benchmark anyway because the two systems have very different use cases but it doesn't invalidate the result.