Not loosing data is an important requirement in modern manufacturing environments with distributed instances / gateways.
Modern distributed software provide mechanisms to not loose any data between different instances/nodes when they are connected with each other and buffer the data in a S&F mode without any limitations.
Ignition is missing this important feature. MQTT or using databases to exchange data is the only option within Ignition.
Ignition native gateway communication (remote tag provider) shall provide a reliable data transfer with buffer or S&F mechanisms to reliable connect gateways and not loosing data in case of network or service unavailabilty.