Maybe all this results in a really durable and foolproof system. I don't see how this is a bad thing. It looks like defense in depth against errors and corrupti

Maybe all this results in a really durable and foolproof system. I don't see how this is a bad thing. It looks like defense in depth against errors and corruption. Also, to my knowledge, the logs in a DB are not kept forever. Instead they are trimmed as soon as reasonable. It starts to smell a little bit like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_merge-tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_merge-tree