Curated list of database (NoSQL, Hadoop, Relational) benchmarks and performance comparisons:

(please annotate and submit a pull request if you have others)

Databases	Link	Type	Independent	Date
SequoiaDB, Cassandra, MongoDB	NoSQL Performance Test	YCSB	Y	2014
Redshift, Hive, Shark, Imapala, Tez	Big Data Benchmark	BDB	Y	2014
LevelDB, RocksDB, HyperLevelDB, LMDB, InfluxDB	Benchmarking LevelDB vs. RocksDB vs. HyperLevelDB vs. LMDB Performance for InfluxDB	YCSB	N	2014
Multiple Relational/Hadoop	TPC industry benchmarks for OLTP, Analytics & Big Data	TPC	Y	Ongoing
Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, OrientDB, Redis	Which NoSQL Database? A Performance Overview	YCSB	Y	2014
MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, OrientDB	Performance Evaluation of NoSQL Systems Using YCSB in a resource Austere Environment	YCSB	Y	2014
LevelDB,SQLite,Keyoto,OpenLdap, BDB	Sysmas DB Benchmarks	YCSB	N	2014
Citrus(PostgresColumar), MonetDB	Citus Data vs. MonetDB TPC-H Shootout	TPC-H	N	2014
Hana, DB2, Postgres, Oracle	Benchmarking Bitemporal Database Systems: Ready for the Future or Stuck in the Past?	Custom	Y	2014
Hadoop, Spark, DataMPI	Performance Benefits of DataMPI:A Case Study with BigDataBench	BigDataBench	N	2014
MySQL, Postgres,UndisclosedBigVendor1, UndisclosedBigVendor2	Multi-Metric comparision of Relational Databases	10 different	Y	2014
Aerospike, Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase	Ultra High Performance NoSQL Benchmarking	YCSB	N	2013
Cassandra, HBase on EC2	Benchmarking Scalability and Elasticity of Distributed Database Systems	YCSB	Y	2013
Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB	Benchmarking Top NoSQL Databases	YCSB	N	2013
Aerospike, Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase	NoSQL Failover Characteristics	YCSB	N	2013
MongoDb, MySQL	RDBMS vs NoSQL: Performance and Scaling Comparison	YCSB	Y	2013
Cassandra	Evalua&on of NoSQL and Array Databases for Sciencific Applications	YCSB	Y	2013
Cassandra	An Evaluation of Cassandra for Hadoop	YCSB	Y	2013
Neo4j, OrientDB, Titan, DEX	An empirical comparison of graph databases	Custom	Y	2013
HBase, Voldemort, Redis, VoltDB, MySQL	Solving Big Data Challenges for Enterprise Application Performance Management	YCSB	Y	2012
Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak	A Vendor Independent Comparison of NoSQL Databases	YCSB	Y	2012
LevelDB, BangDb, BDB	Performance Data For LevelDB, Berkley DB And BangDB For Random Operations	YCSB	N	2012
Couchbase	Couchbase Server 2.0 performance on HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 Server	YCSB	N	2012
Cassandra	Resource Provisioning for NoSQL Datastores	YCSB	Y	2011
HBase, Accumulo	YCSB++	YCSB++	Y	2011
Hadoop, Vertica, SqlServer?	A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis	Custom	Y	2009
		YCSB	Y	2013

Benchmark frameworks:

http://www.tpc.org/

https://github.com/intel-hadoop/Big-Bench

https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/

https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/benchmark/