[beardbandit]

You can use RDBMS for anything that requires complex relationships and map them to unique identifiers in the Mongo documents.

In most cases though, Mongo fits use cases, we never try to use it as a wholesale RDBMS replacement.

[tracker1]

Agreed... Mongo also works well for denormalizing data structures into something that renders faster to the browser. A single key/document->json->get->parse-> render is much faster than a query across many joins and/or sub-queries.

As an aside, if you're doing it anyway, it's also a good point to dump to .json.gz in S3 (or similar) as a secondary backup system.