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Does anyone know why seemingly all the introductory courses advocated nosql stuff like using mongoDB Even freecodecamp who is excellent, does this. They have

• tytho 2y ago
  I can’t speak to the official decisions made by these camps/courses, but from my own experience as an undergrad, I was first introduce to MySQL, and the professors at my university did not teach using migration management tools for bringing a schema in a database up. You were either using a GUI to set up the tables, or running your own cobbled together sql files. For class assignments this was fine. Then I had a professor introduce mongo to me. I was floored by the idea of having my schema live along-side the application code! No more messing around in SQL GUIs! Then of course over time I realized you still need to maintain a schema over time and provide someway to “upgrade” data when your schema evolves, and keep your data consistent. Then I discovered the tools around migrating mongo data are not nearly as mature as the ones you’ll find for SQL databases. I find mongo alright at producing a short-lived prototype of an application (e.g. school assignments), but the risk of it shipping to production for a long period is too risky for the “benefit”.