Ann,

Thanks for helping me understand the paper, and confirm my mental
classification of it as 'yet another middleware serialiser". I'm not quite
sure it is exactly VoltDB, but it comes close for sure.

In the benchmark department, I'm sure Jim will like the following cartoon
very much. I really like the bit about piping data to /dev/null. I don't
know who made it, but it sounds like it was done by a mysql distributor:
http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/1016320617/mongodb-is-web-scale#