I was asked to benchmark CognoDB Cloud, a managed graph database, against four other graph platforms on the same hardware, the same dataset, and the same queries. The brief was clear about one thing: this isn't about proving a winner, it's about proving the comparison itself is fair. That's the part I actually cared about getting right, coming from a DevOps background — a benchmark is only as good as the infrastructure decisions behind it. The biggest finding wasn't about CognoDB at all. Unde...