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That sentence does seem easy to attack if you assume that if you don’t read the manual, MongoDB will not be consistent or robust.

If defaults are touchy, it sounds like they would still benefit from a closer cooperation with Linux distro packagers, perhaps even taking upon the task.

MariaDB has shipped as “UNIX sockets only” and “Only listen to localhost, no default auth”. This increases the difficulty of trying out the database, but for a mature product for mature people, maybe there is no excuse for bad defaults anywhere.