I once built a location aware application on MongoDB. After months of Mongo being the bottleneck in the application and periodically crashing, I switched to a n

I once built a location aware application on MongoDB. After months of Mongo being the bottleneck in the application and periodically crashing, I switched to a naive implementation of the application with PostgreSQL and the application sped up five-fold. I've learned my lesson on Mongo. Postgres, however, has always been pretty awesome.