Generally speaking, I don't like MongoDB. Though it has little to do with the database itself: its more so a combination of the limited use-cases of NoSQL and t

Generally speaking, I don't like MongoDB. Though it has little to do with the database itself: its more so a combination of the limited use-cases of NoSQL and the lack of managed hosting options directly on AWS or GCP (Azure can kind of do Mongo via CosmosDB, but I don't use Azure and don't plan to at this time). If I've just got a small project that needs to throw data somewhere, I'll probably reach for Redis, DynamoDB, or (if its simple enough) just serializing JSON files to S3 (this is an underutilized way of storing structured data if all you need is key-value lookup with no latency or consistency guarantees, very cheap). Its likely my project is already on App Engine or Lambda, so I don't want to have to go to a second login portal just to manage the database. I don't hate NoSQL. I prefer SQL, but I also respect the fact that if you combine something like Mongo with in-app schemas, and are careful about keeping those up to date, writing proper migrations, etc, you can get a very production ready and highly scaleable DB out of Mongo. Its not as bad as people make it out to be.