As a user of databases, I've been shocked by MongoDB's popularity in light of its apparent disregard for correctness and reliability. I used it once to cache a

As a user of databases, I've been shocked by MongoDB's popularity in light of its apparent disregard for correctness and reliability. I used it once to cache a processed form of some data that could be regenerated. One unclean shutdown and it lost that data. I tried using some of the provided recovery tools and failed to recover the data. That was it. Every time MongoDB has come up in conversation since, I've said "Mongo eats your data" and recommended another solution, even though I'm pretty sure that particular bug was fixed long ago. You had one job, MongoDB. I see this as equivalent to a company marketing a smartphone with an impressive feature set and a high rate of bursting in to flames. Most owners would return their recalled phones and think twice about buying the next model from that manufacturer.