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by ericflo 5523 days ago
Not just Mongo though, there are a lot of NoSQL companies out there right now whose marketing claims the impossible.
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It's kind of sad too. There are lots of use cases where I want fast datastores, and you know what, if the database goes down, who cares?

For example, I do lots of experiment logging to a mongodb. If the power goes out, and the data is lost who cares? The data was no longer valid or useful -- but if I slow down my writes for 'safety' I will be causing problems by introducing delay in ways that could cause conflict.