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I'm surprised to see MongoDB as #1 in the db list, is it really now taught at colleges? My favorite article on MongoDB: http://nyeggen.com/post/2013-10-18-the-

• jameshart 11y ago
  Mongo and MySQL - it's like hackathon participants don't really care about data integrity at all :)
  • blhack 11y ago
    Yeah, I mean it's not like anybody has ever built anything useful with either of those datastores before, amirite?
    • fapjacks 11y ago
      At least nothing with Mongo that hasn't completely imploded into a raging inferno at some point in the project's lifetime. I have never heard of a project using MongoDB that didn't at some point sting the developers with some pain points and make people wish they'd never used it in the first place. I really, really wish it wasn't the case, because I like a lot of MongoDB's design ideas, but from a production standpoint, it's crap.
• akhilcacharya 11y ago
  It's not taught at colleges. It's popular for a few reasons - insanely easy to set up with hosted providers, many of which market at hackathons - mongodb markets at a lot of hackathons - many hackathon projects prefer fast-to-write above all else - schemaless is perfect for an environment where iterating quickly is a must and you don't really care about migrating data - works well with node through mongoose, and node is also popular on the hackathon circuit