and now, since 2 versions, they have journaling, and offer a huge amount of flexibility over write durability available: - fire and forget - write with integr

and now, since 2 versions, they have journaling, and offer a huge amount of flexibility over write durability available: - fire and forget - write with integrity check (safe) - write with journal commit - write with data file commit - write with replication to X nodes And you can combine the last 4 in any way you like. They did a pretty good job turning a downside into a significant advantage (yes, fire and forget is a significant advantage in a lot of cases).