Personally I would never use NoSQL, or any datastore, without a schema. And yes, there is value in using NoSQL with a well defined schema (for example if you li

Personally I would never use NoSQL, or any datastore, without a schema. And yes, there is value in using NoSQL with a well defined schema (for example if you like Mongo's query language). In your case you didn't pick the wrong tool - your type system and interfaces to the DB (ORM) were probably lacking.