[threeseed]

MongoDB is a $2b/year revenue company growing at 20% y/y. JSON stores are not going anywhere and it's an essential tool for dealing in data where you have no control over the schema or you want to do it in the application layer.

And the only "battle" is one you've invented in your head. People who deal in data for a living just pick the right data store for the right data schema.

[kukkeliskuu]

"Battle" was (if I remember correctly) the term used by Stonebraker in his 2001 SIGMOD keynote to describe what happened at that specific SIGMOD in the 1980s. It is not "only in my head". Like I said, I don't care what other people store data in.

I don't think MongoDB is going anywhere on the medium term, and there is always going to be some customers. Just like the network databases in the 70s, or XML databases in the 90s.

Bad ideas never die, they just resurface in another form, which people label as "new".

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2024/whatgoesaround-sigmodrec20...

[pragmatic]

And sql server alone is like 5 billion/yr.

[threeseed]

Almost like there is room in the market for more than just SQL databases.

[lazide]

Sensitive much?

[icedchai]

I find using Postgres and JSONB often gets me the best of both worlds.

[znpy]

Ah yes MongoDB, it's web-scale!