It wouldn't have the performance that it has. Cassandra does the same. YugabyteDB does the same https://docs.yugabyte.com/preview/reference/configuration/yb-tse

It wouldn't have the performance that it has. Cassandra does the same. YugabyteDB does the same https://docs.yugabyte.com/preview/reference/configuration/yb-tserver/#durable-wal-write https://docs.yugabyte.com/preview/reference/configuration/yb.... > I would expect stronger guarantees from databases. You can configure it and get lower performance. > Maybe it's inpractical to expect this in cloud environments... For benchmarks they use raid0 on local disks(not EBS) in aws vps.