[axlee]

I didn't really read it as arrogant, more as annoyed about a mischaracterization that was disparaging their product.

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

It's also part of a longer trend of saber rattling between these vendors - there's a history of these types of posts also from TimescaleDB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29096541

[qoega]

There is a small list of vendors that do not forbid to run benchmarks with their systems. https://cube.dev/blog/dewitt-clause-or-can-you-benchmark-a-d...

That is why there is a small subset of vendors that are being 'attacked' by this comparisons.

[bombcar]

More and more we start to see why these forbids are in place.