MongoDB is a document database not a key-value store. That distinction is massively important when you're talking about distributed systems as key-value has fa

MongoDB is a document database not a key-value store. That distinction is massively important when you're talking about distributed systems as key-value has far less edge cases to consider. Also its architecture is quite different as it doesn't have the concept of proxies. Basically in the realm of databases the two are nothing alike.