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by PhilipRoman 486 days ago
It is always funny to see "professional" code or tools compared with "toys". In reality, it is precisely the "professional", "enterprise" stuff that turns out to be a giant pile of shit (which we rarely get to see from outside). There are professional businesses storing their main database in Excel, while the amateurs obsess over whether Postgres is scalable enough.
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Real professionals use MongoDB because it is web scale.
There's still lots of Access Databases running critical functions places too.