[kenwalger]

There are many, many companies that rely on MongoDB. Companies like Google, Facebook, Cisco, Expedia, eBay, just to name a few.

In my experience data loss and operational issues are a thing of the past. With the current version of MongoDB, 3.6, there are lots of data safeguards in place. One of the biggest frustrations that any company faces in the age of the internet is old topics of discussion. MongoDB has come a long way since many "problem area" blog posts and articles.

If you haven't tried out the latest version and put it through its paces, I would highly encourage you to do so. Judging by reports of others here as well as performance and security analysis done by outside vendors, MongoDB is truly web scale.

I've written my own blog posts on MongoDB Performance (https://www.kenwalger.com/blog/nosql/mongodb/mongodb-perform...) and Data Durability (https://www.kenwalger.com/blog/nosql/mongodb/data-durability...) which, while based on MongoDB 3.4, still offer some useful insights into the current state of MongoDB.

Try it out and report back your own findings.

[jitix]

I've tried out many major versions which add new features (MVCC in 3.x was a game changer IMO). But it's just difficult to convince a lot of engineering teams these days to use MongoDB because of all the negative reviews floating around.