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I consider MongoDB a huge warning sign; if you think that's a good idea I don't want anything to do with your code.

Mongo is hated here but I’ve made many services with Postgres and mongo is just far easier to use. Json tooling in Postgres is not as good.

I don’t particularly hate or like any one database, but thinking about migrating the workloads that I have in mongo to Postgres just gives me no interest. Mongo solves the problems I have very well.

That's the thing about Mongo, it's great until it's not. And Not comes quickly for many projects.

There's probably tons of small Mongo installations all over the internet doing great in their little niche. But the moment a project gets too big for Mongo, it becomes a problem very quickly. I suppose it's like comparing a bike to a car. If your problem is getting around a small town with nice weather, the bike wins. But the moment you need to move 5 people on the interstate to the next town in bad weather, there's no real choice besides the car.

That's been my experience with mongo every time

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