I'm not interested in approaching the community -- just forum posts that praise DBMS benchmarking tools associated with DBMS vendors, particularly when those tools show obscenely favorable results for the vendor's DBMS.
In my humblest of opinions, if you want to measure the performance of one DBMS versus another, you need to test it against your applications--where it matters. Benchmarking tools, while valuable to an extent, give a very limited view of things.