[jhugg]

I totally concede that most consistent databases at scale are crap on the ops people.

I would echo Mike's argument and claim that a nice ops story and true consistency are not totally orthogonal. There are a lot of practical reasons why the big database vendors have boiled their frogs and ended up where they are today.

VoltDB certainly isn't the realization of that dream, so I'll put my money where my mouth is and spend the next few years helping it get there.