I wonder if their latency and performance claims in this blog post fall foul of Oracle's "No publishing benchmark results against our competitors".

What? How could that be legal? You can't say "Comparisons with competitors are not allowed" under a free market... right?

If it's in the contract not a lot you can do ... https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/05/the-dewitt-clause-...

Atlassian Jira’s license, section 3.2:

« (h) use the Software for competitive analysis or to build competitive products; (i) publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Software; or (j) encourage or assist any third party to do any of the foregoing. »

https://www.atlassian.com/legal/software-license-agreement

Am I permitted to say that Jira is a bloated, festering slug of a web app?

Your doorbell is ringing, I would answer it. It’s the police, with a warrant.

Every non-free database management system has this clause.

Because Oracle started it back in the day when they got a negative review in a benchmark test.

Maybe now that their contract has expired it doesn't matter.

How much of Oracle runs on AWS? And how many of those customers are evaluating Aurora?

Mwahahaha!

Well, Aurora _is_ the fastest growing AWS service, sooooo.