The database was not the bottleneck for Parse, how they used it was. Actually that is the case for most databases systems, you have to choose a set of trade-off

The database was not the bottleneck for Parse, how they used it was. Actually that is the case for most databases systems, you have to choose a set of trade-offs your application can live with. We wrote about this in more detail here: https://medium.baqend.com/nosql-databases-a-survey-and-decision-guidance-ea7823a822d#.dzdiikcyz https://medium.baqend.com/nosql-databases-a-survey-and-decis...