No, I really can't think of any situation where installing, managing, updating, maintaining, and crying over a mongodb cluster would be easier for a flat-file d

No, I really can't think of any situation where installing, managing, updating, maintaining, and crying over a mongodb cluster would be easier for a flat-file datastore than say, a file system, or S3. In fact if one is on AWS, then nothing beats just dumping them in S3 and processing them as necessary. If I'm a startup and I really wanted some querying then PostgreSQL looks great, with Amazon handling the maint and backups.