I ran into exactly the same problem as the author . I started working on mongo as it was already chosen as backend for a startup .i tried to avoid it but they d

I ran into exactly the same problem as the author . I started working on mongo as it was already chosen as backend for a startup .i tried to avoid it but they did not listen. We understood duplication is the only way forward and you need to unlearn your RDBS skill.Then features crop in and you realize that you need joins badly.Then you would like to have some kind of transaction support and its high time you realize you are really screwed. I always used to wonder what is the real use case for mongo and that is explained nicely in the blog The only thing it’s good at is storing arbitrary pieces of JSON. “Arbitrary,” in this context, means that you don’t care at all what’s inside that JSON. You don’t even look. There is no schema, not even an implicit schema