Performance was an imposed callsign of Mongo, the reason everybody started using it was the declarative schema stuff and so the dev didn't have to know how to s

Performance was an imposed callsign of Mongo, the reason everybody started using it was the declarative schema stuff and so the dev didn't have to know how to start a terminal, which was a not-insignificant hurdle. It doesn't have significant performance differences over other simple KVs. "Faster" was primarily a measurement of learning curve.