[JulienSchmidt]

  I apologize if you feel we stepped on your opinions in any fashion.

I don't ;)

I'm just not so happy about making the queries this way: http://i.imgur.com/u9Nx5.png

Of course I will try to help solving this issue, but it is hard to contribute without testing, since I have no idle server or suitable spare computer around where I could run this tests properly. But my PC seems to have a somewhat similar configuration to your "dedicated i7 hardware". I hope I manage to set up the test environment in a dual-boot soon.

[bhauer]

Thanks for clarifying! It's reassuring.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help ease the process. It is not strictly necessary to set up the whole benchmark platform. You can create the very simple database with the scripts. Then just run Go alongside a load generator such as Wrk in order to experiment with various approaches and do spot checks along the way.