1. A method for prolonging the service life of a solid state device, comprising: in response to receiving a first request to commit a transaction against an object store maintained on one or more solid state devices, sending, to a non-volatile dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a second request to store transaction information for the transaction in the non-volatile DRAM; and in response to receiving a first response indicating that the transaction information has been persistently stored in a transaction log on the non-volatile DRAM, sending a second response indicating that the transaction, made against the object store maintained on the one or more solid state devices, has been committed.