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Except that the advantages and compatibility are not all there. Plus there are now fully managed options for the real thing.

• youdontknowtho 10y ago
  The advantages are real. Compatibility might not be 100%, but honestly Mongo isn't magic. DocumentDB has strengths of it's own.
  • redwood 10y ago
    I'd be happy to learn about your experience developing an application against DocumentDB and its strengths. Care to share?
    • youdontknowtho 10y ago
      im actually building a fairly well massive app with documentdb and service bus. its not a user facing app, so i dont know if that counts for what you were talking about.
      • redwood 10y ago
        Sure, use case aside - expressiveness or the query language, learning curve, secondary indexing etc - keen to hear how all this feels to a new developer to the platform
        • youdontknowtho 10y ago
          https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/DocumentDB-Support-for-Aggregates https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/DocumentDB-Supp...