VAST DataBase Benchmarks: The Numbers We Can't Verify

VAST Data has published benchmark results claiming substantial performance advantages over established solutions. Their DataBase, a component of the VAST Data Platform, reportedly achieves 25% faster query performance than Apache Iceberg while using 30% less CPU, 20x faster needle-in-a-haystack queries with 1/10th the CPU, and 60x faster updates and deletions compared to object-based solutions…