To clarify, I agree that RDBMS's are fantastic, and you pointed out many of the benefits. We are not religious about SQL vs NoSQL. For our particular use cases

To clarify, I agree that RDBMS's are fantastic, and you pointed out many of the benefits. We are not religious about SQL vs NoSQL. For our particular use cases, we think that document stores are a better fit, but I am not arguing that document stores are universally easier or better.