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This advice is fine for programming languages, but not for data stores. Using them incorrectly (or in MongoDB's case and sometimes MySQL's, correctly) could lead to things like data loss or crashed servers. Simply building your product on one of them is not proof they are good enough.

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No, there are programming languages that are just plain bad to use, his philosophy is wrong not only for datastores but for reality in general.

All tools, including programming languages can be bad no matter the skill of the user.

Found the person that doesn't like BrainF*ck. /s

With Excel as a data store!

Glad to see that you actually know what is right ;)

All tools can be bad, but that means that probably you cannot use it well or build something good with it. Every good enough tool can be used to build something good enough, or else it wouldn’t be good enough. And it’s also realistic to assume that every tools popular enough is good enough for something.

But you see, it’s starting to get philosophical over here

You can create the grand canyon with an infinite supply of plastic spatulas. Does that mean a plastic spatula is good tool for creating grand canyons? Of course not.

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