XTDB is a deterministic, single-writer system that leans on existing tech to handle all the hard distributed & durability aspects (e.g. piggy-backing on Kafka f

XTDB is a deterministic, single-writer system that leans on existing tech to handle all the hard distributed & durability aspects (e.g. piggy-backing on Kafka for ACID + HA), so Jepsen would have relatively limited applicability but it couldn't hurt to sanity check that! I generally sympathise with your cynicism though that distributed consistency is much harder to get correct than most people realise. My own attraction to niche databases is the promise of better abstractions - the world desperately need those.