Sorry if you were offended by my question; I didn't intend any disrespect, but I hope you'll forgive me if I say that this HN submission is very confusing. The webpage claims that Gun is both the "easiest database ever" and "not a database" (interesting, then, that the website's URL is gundb). It claims that the problem with databases is that they assume there's a "centralized authority", which is sort of absurd; the overwhelming majority of businesses and organizations that use databases have at least some data that they need to absolutely 100% guarantee is safe and consistent, and distributed algorithms with leaders are the easiest way to capture that. Also, what is "vulnerable" about consensus algorithms? Does your distributed database really have no way to reach consensus?

Persistence is solved with "any S3 like service"? So what does that mean, using Gun is going to tie me to another unrelated Database as a Service that I'm going to have to pay Amazon for?

I'm sure this tool offers something interesting that other tools can't match, since you made it and put time into it, but the existing documentation isn't capturing that yet. Write up another blog post that describes the details, the use cases, the guarantees, etc.; i.e. the actual hard technical details, rather than the PR-speak, and I'll happily take a second look.