As an Urban Airship employee from 2010-2013 this is eerily familiar stuff. I feel like we should all have a big "we tried and failed to use mongodb as a distrib

As an Urban Airship employee from 2010-2013 this is eerily familiar stuff. I feel like we should all have a big "we tried and failed to use mongodb as a distributed oltp database" support group. One point of disagreement: > However, they had an unspoken value system of not trusting their users to deal with complex database and architectural problems. At least for enterprise customers (who actually pay the bills) this is the correct value system. It's not that enterprise developers are bad. It's that enterprise development moves incredibly slowly, so the more freedom and options and implementation details you give them to work with the longer it will take them to be successful. What you as a startup engineer may feel like is a powerful and expressive API just added 6-12 months to the development cycle of every enterprise customer... and thus many will give up on the integration.