[orestes910]

Is it really THAT hard to to run on prem/cloud because of the "complexity that comes with setting up and managing MongoDB clusters at scale"?

The documentation is strong, it was built with horizontal scalability in mind. I don't see the struggle.

[uberduper]

Yes. Sharded mongo has many pitfalls that can challenge your devs, dbas and devops people. Mongo api without all the mongo scaling problems is pretty awesome.

[chx]

I must have used a different API, then. Well, obviously not but it could happen because there are more than one ...

I agree with https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-frankenstein-monster-... the contents of this article (and reserve critique for its author). Even the basic query language, in particular $elemMatch is atrocious which has a certain irony to it because Eliot added it when we asked for the functionality (https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-377), so long ago. We have been one of their first commercial support clients, my boss needed to pressure them to accept money for support, they didn't want to...

[skywhopper]

If you don't see the value, then no need to pay for it.