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by smanek 5692 days ago
I'd hesitate about MongoDB - I'm not aware of a mature Mongo-backed ORM, for starters. Personally, I like http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/postmodern/.
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Since you directly pull JSON objects out of MongoDB (i.e. usable data structures), MongoDB lends itself to a slightly different programming style than you'd have with a relational database and an ORM. I'd hesitate to call either one more idiomatic in a lisp-ish programming style.

EDIT: That said, MongoDB's reliability model (you have to have a synchronized pair of DB servers to get the reliability you get from a single PostgreSQL instance), PostgreSQL may be the safer choice.