[pipe_connector]

Mongo has customers at some of the largest technology companies around and perhaps the best-in-class cloud-agnostic managed service. There's less hype than when the webscale video came out, but they've successfully converted a good bit of that hype into a solid platform with happy customers. I've seen a lot of Mongo new deployments even still.

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

I worked at BigCo that everyone knows about for quite awhile and when I left a couple years ago they were heavily investing in MongoDB for greenfield projects. It ended up being my organization’s (somewhat large, several thousand employees) de jure database for new projects. Mongo is going to be around for awhile.

Personally I disliked it, primarily due to personal bias towards RDBMS (most data is inherently relational and I saw a lot of unnecessary hoops getting jumped through to join data) and also because the driver situation was absolutely terrible when I had to work with it. Custom drivers to serialize almost any JSON data was incredibly annoying.

[redwood]

This "inherently relational" trope, in my view, is a sign that we've all deeply normalized normalization in our brains.. it's funny it's even in the nomenclature.. "normal". Yet denormalization is how our brains actually think: is it possible that all along we've been contorting ourselves to the 1970s machine and that that's no longer necessary?