> I don't see no bugs in a distributed database as important enough to delay shipping for 5 years The marketplace has enough distributed databases with bugs.

> I don't see no bugs in a distributed database as important enough to delay shipping for 5 years The marketplace has enough distributed databases with bugs. There's a nice catalogue of them at jepsen.io. > For me it's much more important to ship something with no critical bugs early, get user feedback, iterate, then rinse and repeat continually. * You can't really choose which bugs are critical if you're selling a database. A lost write is as critical as the customer deems it is. * You're not limited to your own users' feedback. There's plenty of users out there who disapprove of a buggy database, so you can probably take their views onboard before release.