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swdunlop on Jan 29, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance

TL;DR -- If you don't use safe mode / write concerns, writes are not safe.

genwin on Jan 29, 2013 | [–]

and (from the article) if you do use safe mode, MongoDB is a lot slower and can no longer finish the entire benchmark suite in the time allotted.

Dylan16807 on Jan 30, 2013 | [–]

And that the safe modes are broken and still not safe.

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