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I think that the hype has slowed down around NoSQL, much in the same way as it happens around most technologies. There are still very solid use cases for Mongo

I think that the hype has slowed down around NoSQL, much in the same way as it happens around most technologies. There are still very solid use cases for Mongo/Couch/Dynamo/GraphQL/etc. it's just that the hype train of "use NoSQL for everything, even situations that are tailor made for row/column stores" has quieted some (there's still pockets of "OMG MAP-REDUCE ALL THE THINGS"). I think the combination of the drop in hype, along with the ability to see gains with things like PostgreSQL (and others) handling JSON blobs well has made people actually evaluate trade offs a little bit more sanely.

uplyftcapital 7y ago
This is true. When pgSQL, SQLite and MySQL began to support JSON in 2015/2016 a the attractiveness of NoSQL databases - especially - of document stores seemed to diminish somehow.
- jlangemeier 7y ago
  I wouldn't consider it too surprising; most document store type data was still most effectively backed by a structured column/row store system; and the major structured datastores implementing JSON support made it easier to use that in a single db structure instead of trying to get something like Postgres and Mongo to play together; although there are still many use cases for tiered datastores that use a combination of SQL and NoSQL system).