Because the koolaid is so sweet. MongoDB is every developer's wet dream. With it's expressive query syntax and extreme ease of use, everyone wants to drink the

Because the koolaid is so sweet. MongoDB is every developer's wet dream. With it's expressive query syntax and extreme ease of use, everyone wants to drink the koolaid. This is a huge problem, because mongodb as a database is dangerous [..] I have developers begging me to let them use it. This time to collect logs from our servers for analysis later. I cave in, and give my go ahead, with a warning saying that no critical data can enter that section. Mongo processes were crashing. Several times per day. About 20% of the crashes yielded a completely corrupted database. This programmers wet dream quickly shows itself to be a serious operations nightmare. http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/02/07/10gen-response/#comment-792884602 http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/02/07/10gen-response/#com...