Is there some reason why your benchmarks look like you're cheating?

"The Citrusleaf server node received input from 4 client nodes, the MongoDB server node received input from 1 client node running 2 client processes, and the Redis server node received input from 2 client nodes."

I mean -- if you're cheating, that's bad. If you're not cheating, why the hell do you set things up to look like you're cheating?