[aroman]

It uses a database, specifically MongoDB. But as I understand it, Meteor manages this for you itself, and abstracts the orchestration of those things into the Meteor platform itself.

It's just a higher level of abstraction, not a new technology. And certainly not flat files.

[rdtsc]

MongoDB? I think to be accepted and taken more seriously they'd have to at least have an option for something else.

[sarciszewski]

I say PostgreSQL. Not only can it do everything MongoDB can do (and faster* too), it's time-tested technology.

* http://blogs.enterprisedb.com/2014/09/24/postgres-outperform...