[marginalia_nu]

Allow me to doubt that you have deep insight into the motivations of thousands of people that have all selected MongoDB for their projects. This seems unlikely for several reasons, if nothing else because of Dunbar's number.

[threeseed]

I don’t need to have deep insights. Developers almost always have to justify why they pick certain technologies.

And given how old MongoDB is not sure how it benefits anyone’s resume.

[marginalia_nu]

If you don't understand their motivations, how can you claim to know their motivations?

[halostatue]

There are thousands of projects where MongoDB was selected precisely because it was a new-shiny No SQL thingy.

For some of these things, it may have been the right thing. For most of them, it was a chance to play with new technologies. I have seen multiple commercial projects where MongoDB was chosen by the developers with _no_ oversight by management (I have killed a couple of those projects, too, because MongoDB was always the wrong technology).

The original comment about the number of projects where MongoDB was chosen under résumé-driven-development is absolutely correct. That doesn’t make it _bad_; how _else_ is one supposed to get experience with new technologies than to try something new? (Sticking with Mongo after multiple data-loss incidents due to the “architecture” of Mongo, on the other hand…)