So you need to do THAT to get decent perfs with MongoDB. Good to know!
http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/
(I can get better results for Key-Value storage by using an SQL Database--Postgres or MariaDB--for key/values over MongoDB. And if you know SQL well, you can get even better results using a real relational database and optimal queries than pulling out keys/values and ad-hocking your relations in some Javascript code or whatever these web kids are doing.)