Very true. I have been doing some wacky custom DB stuff using Python and LevelDB (for very strange indexing requirements, and using the Basho variant of LevelDB

Very true. I have been doing some wacky custom DB stuff using Python and LevelDB (for very strange indexing requirements, and using the Basho variant of LevelDB) and it's superbly fast, predictable and easy to use, at least until you get to about 100m k/v pairs! The horrible binary manipulation capabilities in JavaScript is a serious headache for any kind of serious networking or storage interfacing.