Please do a benchmark and feature comparison against aerospike and foundationdb, those are your main open source competitors as far as I can tell. Maybe I live in a different world but to me it really doesn't matter how good Anna is versus some closed source cloud database.
It's an academic research project focusing on coordination-free stuff. Sort of the opposite of aerospike and foundationdb that use coordination and are products. There is no point comparing to them because of that. Coordination is generally slower than not doing it and you won't be using Anna anyway.
If they are a purely academic project then why compare yourself to a commercial alternative? Those are two different worlds. I seem to recall that they specifically mentioned somewhere that it's not just for academic interest, otherwise I wouldn't have even bothered to ask for benchmarks. And who says that I won't use it? I like experimental stuff, I'd totally use it if they show some fancy performance numbers and maybe implement a document store on top of the key value abstraction. And why would I dislike coordination-free stuff?
I just have the feeling that aerospike is probably as good as it gets but it's not based on any testing.
