[meh01]

I don't know how you can say it's "performant as hell" when it's actually slower than even MySQL for simple selects.

[antman]

Selecting data is important, inserting is also important see: [1]A comparison of NoSQL dbs: Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak (includes MYSQL cluster)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5076130

[meh01]

Yes, then you start thinking about the workload of the average webapp...