| CouchDB, RethinkDB, PostgreSQL. >OMG I hate it!" somehow signals membership to some cool clique of connoisseurs You do realize you are the one dragging identity into the mix. I dont understand how this is a big ego debate. MongoDB isnt that relevant and it isnt Nickelback, its a homeopathetic database. That is: if you use it for something else than caching (store data you cant afford to loose, or load balance and use the database as main mutex to deal with all concurrency issues) that would arguably be a very irresponsible choice. Hell i hate most databases, because its hard to get right yet some have interesting trade-offs (ElasticSearch, Cassandra, CockroachDB). And its not a subjective or even analog discussion where databases are more or less consistent or more or less durable. They fsync or they dont. They use raft with majority consensus or they dont. If you as a sysadmin judge these emperical facts based on your prejudices about the sort of people that would agree or disagree with you than you are much more like the cool clique of connoisseurs than the people at the other end of your finger. Its engineering, not wine tasting. The shape of the world isnt a subjective thing anymore than the durability of a database that doesnt fsync. |