[Youden]

> MongoDB offers the ability to make sql queries and even has Acid transactions. Everything SQL can do, it does without slowing down when dealing with big data. The only thing it doesn't offer an efficient solution for is something SQL can't do either, and that's advanced search engine capabilities like Elasticsearch provides.

You seem to be looking at this solely from a perspective of what kind of queries you can run but there's a lot more to it than that. For example how do you model and maintain relational data, which I'd argue is most data? Does MongoDB have support for foreign keys or something like them these days? A quick Google brings up DBRefs but these seem very soft.

[OOPMan]

You made the point I wanted to make without sarcasm. Thanks :-)

[Youden]

I don't want to sound too preachy but I find it often helps to assume the best of everyone. Most people aren't idiots, they just see things differently sometimes.

I thought about it a bit and I think that if you see something you disagree with or think is silly, usually that person either has different priorities to you (e.g. they might work in a document-centric company) or might just not have the same knowledge or experience. Either way, if you state your assumptions (in this case "relational data is important") and ask a question ("how does MongoDB handle this"), you should usually be able to trigger a respectful and productive discussion.

Of course sometimes there are just arseholes and trolls on the internet, in which case you can usually tell quickly and stop engaging.