The paper stating the RUM conjecture was published by a group of Harvard DASLab researchers in 2016. They also have created a more easily digestable RUM conjecture home page with graphics. Yet, in this blog post I try to describe the idea in even simpler terms than that page.

An engineer I work with asked me for tips on what to read about database benchmarking. I told him I've learned a lot from reading Mark Callaghan's blog. Now that I think about it, articles and conference talks from Baron Scwhartz were also, or even more, fundamental early on when I was getting started.