> MongoDB is one of the most successful open-source databases of all time. It used to be open source. It's not anymore > The parent company is a listed compan

> MongoDB is one of the most successful open-source databases of all time. It used to be open source. It's not anymore > The parent company is a listed company and worth $15BN, 3x more than Elastic to put some perspective. That's purely a capitalistic argument and makes no difference to whether the product is any good. For example, there's plenty of "churches" that are richer than MongoDB Inc. and absolutely abhorrent and evil. > This comes with trade-offs. The only thing that required the trade-off of data loss was cheating in benchmarks in order to hoodwink naive potential users into using their dangerous product. MongoDB Inc. has always preferred to lie to their users. It is not a database company; it's a marketing company with a product they label as a database. And that's a smart way to make money, sure, because of vendor lock-in, but it's not a smart way to gain trust.