It is often used to compare the relative performance of NoSQL database management systems.
The original benchmark was developed by workers in the research division of Yahoo!
who released it in 2010 with the stated goal of "facilitating performance comparisons of the new generation of cloud data serving systems", particularly for transaction-processing workloads which differed from ones measured by benchmarks designed for more traditional database management systems.
[4][5] It has been used for multiple-product comparisons by industry observers such as Network World (comparing Cassandra, MongoDB, and Riak),[6] Thumbtack Technologies (comparing Aerospike, Cassandra, Couchbase, and MongoDB),[7] and the Polytechnic Institute and University of Coimbra (comparing Cassandra, HBase, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Oracle NoSQL, OrientDB, Redis, Scalaris, Tarantool, and Voldemort).
[8] SanDisk Corporation published results measured on the Oracle NoSQL Database.