"Firebase stores all its data in MongoDB which offers the built-in capability for apps to scale automatically and gives each piece of data its own unique URL stored in JSON documents."
I was going to see if I can get achieve data consistency problems there for my own firebase app.
Also posts that malign MongoDB frequently make it to the home page [3][4].
[1] http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb
[2] http://www.mongodb.org/about/production-deployments/
[3] http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never...
[4] http://www.aaronstannard.com/post/2013/12/19/The-Taxonomy-of...