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I totally understand this perspective. FWIW, we're trying to be as open as we can about those "gotchas". You might be interested in our:

- Known limitations (http://foundationdb.com/documentation/beta1/known-limitation...)

- Anti-features (http://foundationdb.com/white-papers/anti-features/)

- Performance considerations (http://foundationdb.com/documentation/beta1/developer-guide....)

Talk to you in a few years :)

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FWIW, those documents are a fantastic start and contain the sort of things that I wish I had known about MongoDB and Riak before embarking on quests to use them.

I hope you do well -- the world really needs a good amalgamation of strong data integrity (ACID, transactions) and the ease-of-life that distributed databases generally give you. Since I don't work in an industry where I need microsecond reads, I'm perfectly happy to pay the cost of "it might take 10s of milliseconds to commit this" if I can avoid having to go down the "okay, now I have to shard my project" path for an eighth time. :-)

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