[Spivak]

But they’re using the other well-established meaning of durability a la how AWS and others describe their storage platforms. It’s pretty much the same thing but taken at whole system level. On that level an ACID database is as durable as the underlying storage medium which is sadly not very durable.

[kragen]

well, it's sort of arbitrary that the standard definition of durability requires your data to survive machine checks and kernel panics and power outages but not disk failures, isn't it

especially since nowadays in many data centers disk failures are far more common

(though full raid failures are less common)

but that is the standard definition