I find it difficult to seriously address comments to this thread. People still referencing 10gen and talking about data points from 5-10 years ago (2009, 2012,

I find it difficult to seriously address comments to this thread. People still referencing 10gen and talking about data points from 5-10 years ago (2009, 2012, 2013). You do realize it's 2017 now, right? Many things have changed in MongoDB (and in the IT world in general) during the last 5 years. MongoDB is a mature, established, full-featured database - recognized by Gartner as a "challenger" to more established RDBMS vendors like Oracle and Microsoft. http://bit.ly/2uP3Obi http://bit.ly/2uP3Obi MongoDB has many built in features that are extremely attractive for building modern applications. Built in HA & DR, horizontal scalability, multiple storage engines, rich indexing and query capabilities, enhanced BI features in aggregation framework, and many more...