I don't think we disagree as much as you might think! I'm trying not to critique MongoDB today, but rather thinking of what it will become. Today's implementa

I don't think we disagree as much as you might think! I'm trying not to critique MongoDB today, but rather thinking of what it will become. Today's implementation problems will hopefully be fixed. I agree that without joins, MongoDB querying is very limited. I credit them enough to believe they will end up fixing that and supporting joins in some way. But then, they have "SQL with a different syntax". And I definitely agree on the data-loss bugs. But again, presuming they fix those, they just end up with something very similar to a relational DB, in terms of the CAP theorem etc. In short, even when/if they fix all the bugs and add all the missing features, I worry that we'll just end up back where we started.