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Most products don't trash data and ignore almost every real-world usecase.

MongoDB is a marketing meme that slowly has had a database built around it.

There was perhaps even still is the idea out there to shave off some engineering time by ditching established principles engineers followed for the past 50 years.

Personally I think the idea for MongoDB is not that bad. It's just not one that works for business scenarios, where traditional principles are mandatory.

There are some things I really like about it. The pattern-matching-esque syntax for queries, for example, is quite neat. The ability to do certain type of data munging, the easy use of JS to handle certain things, all good.

But, the bread-and-butter business stuff has continually left me disappointed and sometimes working way harder than needed.

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