The document discusses benchmarking different big data platforms and SQL-on-Hadoop engines. It evaluates the performance of Hadoop using the TPCx-HS benchmark with different network configurations. It also compares the performance of SQL query engines like Hive, Spark SQL, Impala, and file formats like ORC and Parquet using the TPC-H benchmark on a 1TB dataset. The results show that a dedicated 1Gb network is 5 times faster than a shared network. For SQL query engines, Hive with ORC format is on average 1.44 times faster than with Parquet. Spark SQL could only run 12 queries and was faster on 5 queries compared to Hive.