I appreciate your technical insight, but glueing those technologies together is far from trivial. Making it easily to manage and reliable is even harder.
I trust your best intention, but even Dropbox was dismissed on HN as user-friendly rsync.
OK, perhaps they wrote a MySQL-Dynamo (or whatever it is) wire-protocol translation engine, and do not use MySQL server. But custom storage engine looks like most natural way.
I trust your best intention, but even Dropbox was dismissed on HN as user-friendly rsync.