[mrgordon]

Yeah a colleague referred to MongoDB as the best marketed database and he was 100% correct. They’ll make some misleading benchmarks, throw a few conferences, and voila you have something to replace your ol’ RDBMS

My favorite MongoDB moment was when Stripe wrote MoSQL so they could sync Mongo into PostgreSQL so data scientists can do joins and otherwise interpret the data. Now you have a “SQL replacement” and SQL instead of just using SQL!

I can see it for truly self contained records at massive scale but IMO it falls flat as a RDBMS replacement which is how most people probably use it still.