I completely agree, and I'm not saying that MongoDB is better because it has an easier install. The question was just "Why did you go to MongoDB over Riak?", an

I completely agree, and I'm not saying that MongoDB is better because it has an easier install. The question was just "Why did you go to MongoDB over Riak?", and I did because I was able to start evaluating it faster, and discovered that it met my needs handily, deprecating the need to wrestle with my Erlang install any further.