If they had released this a year or two ago we would have used it. We use Mongo... barely (as in the volume of data barely registers). That's a great example of

If they had released this a year or two ago we would have used it. We use Mongo... barely (as in the volume of data barely registers). That's a great example of something better off being handed to a hosting company. Self hosting MongoDB has always been a pain if you only have a small amount of data in it. The scaling goes one host, master/slave (which existed, though people would argue with you that it didn't), to 7+ separate hosts if you're going to build it properly (2x mongoose with DNS across them, 3x config cluster, 3x data cluster). That's a hell of a jump for someone only using Mongo incidentally. You can cheat and combine multiple pieces of the cluster on single hosts but if that fails you can then get into weird multi-component failure issues.