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by vannevar 5340 days ago
Why is a database that fails so easily and most of the time even loses data so popular?

Perhaps because both of your premises are wrong? I've used Mongo for over a year now with ~1000 writes/sec and haven't seen any of these problems. I'm not saying they don't exist (some are confirmed bugs that have been fixed), but they're not nearly as prevalent as your 'Do you still beat your wife?'-style question implies.