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by zorlem 4449 days ago
I, too, don't like the way MongoDB works and is marketed, but I would not bet too strongly on them failing. Only 10 years or so ago MySQL did pretty much the same, but they managed to succeed, despite there being better alternatives at the time.

Even today, after all the development effort put into MySQL and its derivatives, there are still better and more capable databases, but that doesn't prevent MySQL from being one of the top three RDBMS-es (and we can bet it is the most popular FOSS RDBMS).