I should clarify, I'm a big fan of SQL and relational DBs, but it's hard to deny that some/many devs find the abstraction boundary a bit weird. And really, whe

I should clarify, I'm a big fan of SQL and relational DBs, but it's hard to deny that some/many devs find the abstraction boundary a bit weird. And really, when you think about it, it is a bit weird, (we send sentences of almost-english toward the DB, then get structured data back) and there's nothing wrong with that. But many devs do value the ability to stay in hash-map land all day without needing to think about how to cross an abstraction boundary into the DB, and MongoDB actually has a pretty cool solution there.