Sounds like the author of this 'article' just wanted to make a thinly veiled plug for the "HyperDex" product. Blaming all of this on MongoDB is silly. You can

Sounds like the author of this 'article' just wanted to make a thinly veiled plug for the "HyperDex" product. Blaming all of this on MongoDB is silly. You can do the kind of idiocy displayed by these exchanges even on generic DBs by doing things like not using transactions and/or not waiting for write confirmation. The root problem is in the (lack of) design and programming of these systems not their data store.