I did just that move when I realized that I was doing a lot of work so impose schemas on my "schemaless" data and another bunch of work to implement joins in my

I did just that move when I realized that I was doing a lot of work so impose schemas on my "schemaless" data and another bunch of work to implement joins in my application. I found the best way to do migrations is with vanilla SQL. I wrote a little tool to read migrations from SQL files in a directory, send them to the server and keep track of which ones have already been applied. Simple and easy. The big benefit of migration is that your app code doesn't have to deal with every possible schema that you've ever used; it can rely on the data being uniform. I'm very happy with the switch; wouldn't go back to Mongo for anything.