Comment by dalyons

Calling it a hack is pretty unfair. The log storage engine is a huge innovation, in my experience makes large MySQL/pg clusters much more reliable and performant at scale in a variety of different ways.

It has a couple of quirks, but on balance it feels like the future - the next evolution of what traditional rdbms are capable of.

But if you don’t have scale or resiliency needs it probably doesn’t matter to you.