Why did they send this to you over email? Are you in a separate time zone, deaf or something else? Seems like it would be an odd thing to discuss over email.
This might be the case if you run servers on single machines rather than in clusters. And if you are running servers on single instances, aren't you already giving yourself a SPOF? If you need a specific server to be running at all times it seems like you have a problem.
I think you missed my point. The USP of MongoDb in my view is the simplicity and its scalability model. At least these are the things which are interesting to me and what is hard to implement. They have cloned a subset of the functionality - the subset which is easy - and left the hard parts. I don't agree that this proves anything.
What does the lack of SSL termination mean? We are running many services in Azure which we access using TLS1.2 via the loaf balancer so what would SSL termination add to this?
I thought MongoDb:s main selling point was the simple scale-out model? At least that's what stuck with me. I'm well aware about the non-robustness properties of Mongo, but to me it seems like calling this a clone without the scale-out capabilities would be missing the point.