[nemothekid]

>It was purely a poorly chosen configuration setting which reflects the fact that Mongo was originally not a general purpose database.

Thats dubious. 1.) When MongoDB was released, none of the drivers used the "safer" settings. 2.) 10gen, at the time, released benchmarks with the "unsafe" settings comparing it to MySQL and boasted that MongoDB was much faster (ignoring the fact that it wasn't acknowledging your writes).

[victorhooi]

Hmm, are you able to point us to any of these "benchmarks" with unsafe settings?

AFAIK, until recently (i.e. the last month), there weren't any such benchmarks released by MongoDB - and then, only for 3.x.

I'd be very surprised if any such benchmarks exist, as you claim.

Disclaimer - I work for MongoDB Inc.