yeah ... in the early days of mongo it was pitched as a replacement for relational because a) it had faster writes without those pesky joins and constraints, an

yeah ... in the early days of mongo it was pitched as a replacement for relational because a) it had faster writes without those pesky joins and constraints, and b) because it's too hard to model data, so chances are it's just unstructured. the onslaught of "relational is dead" and "joins are annoying" was tremendous