[aavotins]

MongoDB reminds me of an old saying that if you have a problem and you use a regex to solve it, you end up with two problems.

I have personally used MongoDB in production two times for fairly busy and loaded projects, and both times I ended up to be the person that encouraged migrating away from MongoDB to a SQL based storage solution. Even at my current job there's still evidence that MongoDB was used for our product, but eventually got migrated to PostgreSQL.

Most of the times I've thought that I chose the wrong tool for the right job, which may be true, but still leaves a lot of thought about the correct application. Right now I have a MongoDB anxiety - as soon as I start thinking about maybe using it(with an emphasis on maybe), I remember all the troubles I went through and just forget it.

It is certainly not a bad product, but it's a niche product in my opinion. Maybe I just haven't found the niche.

[MoOmer]

I literally brought up the regex joke in a meeting yesterday. A data warehouse was built on top of Mongo, and I get to help clean up the mess.