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How well does it stand up against other "NoSQL" solutions that compete in the same space? My impression has been that it tends compete poorly with a number of other solutions for data integrity, and my intuition is that its appeal is correlated to the proliferation of JavaScript and the convenience of interoperating with it.

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From my experience, the problem is not how does any NoSQL solution stand up vs. any other NoSQL solution. The question to ask is "What caveats affect me the least?" and then go with that NoSQL solution. In the case of MongoDB, the biggest issue (at least in the past) is that the caveats simply aren't known well, or at all!

Compare this to something like Elasticsearch, which is well-known (and well-documented) to have data loss in certain situations.

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