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I'm really interested in this as well. It seems that postgres with jsonb is such an incredible generalist, that I don't see why if reach for mongo. This is als

I'm really interested in this as well. It seems that postgres with jsonb is such an incredible generalist, that I don't see why if reach for mongo. This is also because I think of mongo as generalist, which may or may not be right. It seems as though there are better choices for more specific use cases

gremlinsinc 8y ago
the biggest use case (and it's a bad one), is because a stack (MERN/MEAN) and all tutorials for said 'stack' use mongo, or a framework like Meteor... it sort of locks devs into bad practices when being a little more picky, a little more curious about options could make for a better architecture. It's not like you couldn't rip out mongo in MERN and use PERN or MyERN (Mysql Express React Node). There's some good libs/packages for using relational db's, and the benefits may outweigh those of Mongo. I guess one other use case maybe would be an incremental/idle game, where all data is just stored as one big json doc, and you just need to connect/update totals, then sync that data back and forth, with not a lot of relationship/connections or transactional data.