| > I think you're asking the wrong question. The question should be: How did MongoDB become so successful? Marketing, marketing, and more marketing. Mongo was written by a couple of adtech guys. > Not only that, their marketing/outreach efforts were also aimed at younger developers. When was the last time you saw a Postgres rep at a college tech event? I remember being underwhelmed by two things at the one MongoConf I went to earlier this decade: 1.) My immediate boss was an unfathomable creep who was there mostly to pick up women 2.) Mongo was focused on how to work around the problems (e.g. aggregate framework) rather than how to solve them. I can't recall ever seeing a Postgres rep, but I can recall having worked out a PostGIS bug with a fantastically tight feedback loop. The Postgres documentation and community are nothing short of amazing. Meanwhile with Mongo I watched as jawdropping bugs languished. IDGAF what the reps say, anyone with even a few years experience should've been able to see through the bullshit that Mongo/10gen was/is selling. |