[amenod]

In noSQL world, any DB's default settings should be a giant red flag. Don't get me started about HBase... I lost 2 hours of data this way. :(

[coffeemug]

That was actually one of the explicit design goals of Rethink -- pick defaults such that users never have to wonder about the safety of their data. I know the folks at Riak are also in this camp, so there are definitely NoSQL dbs that do this well.

[shin_lao]

I'm not sure Riak is a good example as it's another example of an extremely slow database.

There's also the angle that if it's to offer no performance benefit, perhaps a classic relational database will do it?

I'm curious to hear your thoughts about it.

[gigq]

As someone that uses hbase in production, I'd be interested in hearing the setting you are talking about.

[Lazare]

Honestly, I've been very positively impressed with CouchDB so far.