One thing I always liked about couchdb, aside from its other merits or faults, is that it was designed to be a crash only service. Meaning that the normal, corr

One thing I always liked about couchdb, aside from its other merits or faults, is that it was designed to be a crash only service. Meaning that the normal, correct way to shut it down is just an abrupt halt of the process. This means that functionally there's no difference between a normal shutdown and a crash or a killed process. This is quite valuable for a service where data integrity is important.