Torturing Databases for Fun and Profit (2014) [video]

TL;DW: A report about testing eight different databases on a range of OSes and filesystems (including journaling filesystems) under a power failure condition and examined whether they were capable of recovering correctly.

All eight had problems. Most of the problems related to a lack of durability.

The eight databases were: TokyoCabinet, MariaDB, LightningDB, SQLLite, KVS-A, SQL-A, SQL-B and SQL-C.

I'm surprised to see SQLLite in there (I don't know as much about the others) - as their test suite specifically includes simulating shutdowns such as these.