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## [Should you care about performance?](https://blog.quasar.ai/should-you-care-about-performance)

 Posted by [Edouard](https://blog.quasar.ai/author/edouard) on 29 Apr 2019

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> This post is part of a series about the challenges behind database performance and how to accurately assess it.

## You don’t care about performance

When we started selling [QuasarDB](https://www.quasardb.net/), we focused on its performance advantages and touted how great they were. The logic behind that was obvious: we were very strong in this area; thus we should bring the battle to where we are strong!

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## [Database performance](https://blog.quasar.ai/database-performance)

 Posted by [Edouard](https://blog.quasar.ai/author/edouard) on 12 Mar 2019

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> This port is the first in a series about the challenges behind database performance and how to accurately assess it. In future posts, we will dig more into the specifics of benchmarks and design choices.

## The Penrose stairs of performance

If you are following database innovation you can see that nearly every database vendor out there has at least one benchmark putting them in the first place. With every vendor selling the fastest database there is, you end up in a [Penrose stairs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_stairs) situation where everyone is faster than everyone.

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## [Hardware is expensive](https://blog.quasar.ai/2009/04/28/hardware-is-expensive)

 Posted by [user](https://blog.quasar.ai/author/user) on 28 Apr 2009

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You probably heard at least once the *hardware is free* aphorism. Perhaps you even said it! The underlying notion is that optimizing code is generally more expensive than upgrading the machine or even buying a new one.

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