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Build a financial exchange with Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, and Redis. What could go wrong?

Stripe is on Ruby and Mongo and they seem to be doing OK.

Good point.

Why do people still use a document database with no transactions for domains with a fairly slim and rarely changing schemas?

the expertise of their engineers leans that way .... why do we have many techs that can do the same thing? ... engineering is a social science