Talks, Webinars & Podcasts
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From international conference stages to webinars and podcasts with industry leaders, benchANT's benchmarking expertise is trusted by the database & performance community.
Explore the talks, webinars, and podcasts where we share real, reproducible performance insights with the industry.
Conference Talks
PostgreSQL Goes Columnar: How Far Can It Really Push Analytics?
About Benchmarking native PostgreSQL, pg_duckdb, Citus Columnar against specialized OLAP engines on TPC-DS, ClickBench to find out where PostgreSQL competes and where dedicated systems still win.
- Where: P99 Conf
- When: 2026
- Speaker: Daniel Seybold
- Slides & Data
- Recording: TBD
There Is No Such Thing as a Fair DBaaS Benchmark
About A practical look at what "fair" really means when benchmarking DBaaS platforms—covering hidden IO limits, burst credits, and pricing tiers—so you can compare systems based on engineering truth, not marketing claims.
- Where: WeAreDevelopers
- When: 2026
- Speaker: Daniel Seybold
- Slides: TBD
- Recording
From OLTP to OLAP: Is PostgreSQL Eating Analytics Too?
About Can PostgreSQL become a serious analytical database? We examine the performance impact of modern extensions on HTAP and OLAP workloads.
- Where: Berlin Buzzwords
- When: 2026
- Speaker: Daniel Seybold
- Slides & Data
- Recording
Open Source trifft KI: PostgreSQL für moderne Vektor-Workloads
About Benchmarking pgvector and pgvecto.rs against specialized vector databases across data sizes, dimensions, and tuning levels to show how far PostgreSQL can go for AI vector search.
- Where: data2day
- When: 2025
- Speaker: Daniel Seybold
- Slides & Data
Elevating PostgreSQL: Benchmarking Vector Search Performance
About PostgreSQL continues to evolve with vector search extensions like pgvector and pgvecto.rs. We’ll explore recent benchmarks comparing vector search performance across various datasets and configurations, highlighting PostgreSQL’s adaptability in modern use cases.
An all-around benchmark of the DBaaS market
About Introducing the benchANT DBaaS Navigator, an open platform comparing over 20 relational and NoSQL DBaaS providers on features, cost, and performance—with a closer look at how ScyllaDB Cloud performs.
- Where: Scylla Summit
- When: 2024
- Speaker: Daniel Seybold
- Data
- Slides
- Recording
Insights from the Open Database Performance Ranking
About A look at the open database performance ranking, exploring what it takes to run transparent, reproducible benchmarks of cloud-hosted databases and the performance and cost insights they reveal across providers, databases, and workloads.
- Where: CMG IMPACT
- When: 2023
- Speaker: Daniel Seybold
- Data
- Recording
Solving the issue of mysterious database benchmarking results
About Using benchANT's fully automated, multi-cloud benchmarking platform to put ScyllaDB's performance and scalability promises to the test against other NoSQL databases—with all data released as open data on GitHub.
- Where: Scylla Summit
- When: 2023
- Speaker: Daniel Seybold
- Slides
- Recording
Webinars
Cloud-Datenbankmanagement neu gedacht
About Optimize your cloud for cost, resilience, and agility. We provide a clear strategic vision and actionable operational guidance, helping you balance financial efficiency, reliability, and performance.
- Hosted By: Tessel
- Event Page
- When: 2026
- Speaker: Jörg Domaschka
- Role: Independent benchmarking expert / Guest speaker
- Topics: Cloud, DBaaS, Performance, Costs, Resilience
Database Benchmarking for Performance Masterclass
About Learn how to build reproducible database benchmarks by understanding workload modeling, concurrency effects, latency analysis, and performance measurement best practices.
- Hosted By: ScyllaDB
- Event Page
- When: 2025
- Speaker: Daniel Seybold
- Role: Independent benchmarking expert / Guest speaker
- Topics: Cloud, DBaaS, Benchmarking, Workloads, Performance
- Recording
Choosing the Best DBaaS for Performance and Price
About Learn how leading DBaaS platforms compare in performance, scalability, management, and cost to identify the best fit for your business requirements.
- Hosted By: Couchbase
- Event Page
- When: 2023
- Speaker: Daniel Seybold
- Role: Independent benchmarking expert / Guest speaker
- Topics: Cloud, DBaaS, Benchmarking, Workloads, Performance
- Recording
Insights Cases for Data-driven Decision Making in IT
About Understand that DBaaS from different vendors expose different performance and how to measure these differences using benchmarks and benchmarking principles.
- Hosted By: Open Telekom Cloud Circle Partner Programm
- When: 2023
- Speaker: Jörg Domaschka
- Role: benchmarking expert / Partner company/ Guest speaker
- Topics: Cloud, DBaaS, Benchmarking, Performance Comparison
Podcasts
The Cloud Screener
About In this episode of The Cloud Screener, meet the king of DBaaS benchmarking: Daniel Seybold. He is the co-founder of benchANT, an analytics firm specializing in databases.
- Episode: The Magician of DBaaS
- When: 2024
- Guests: Anthony Monthe, Jérôme Blin, Daniel Seybold
- Recording
SMC Journal
About Think your Database is fast? How does it measure up? Find out how Benchant does it, and which database to choose for your platforms and applications.
- Episode: Which Database is the Fastest?
- When: 2023
- Guests: Scott Moore & Daniel Seybold
- Recording
