(1) NoSQL comprises hundreds of databases. Are all of them worse than every single RDBMS even those that support ACID ? That's just idiotic.
(2) MongoDB supports date types. Don't blame them if you choose to use a string or number. And yes it is a schemaless database as it was designed to be since day one. If you can't competent enough to manage your schema in your application layer than use something else.
I meant to draw attention to the HN user comments on that story, not the actual story itself :)
Edited to make that clear. I do believe the HN comments about data inconsistency, duplicity, using a NoSQL solution where an RDBMS makes more sense, are all relevant.
Here's another quote from that discussion thread.
> Sometimes the TV show start and end dates would be milliseconds since the epoch, some would be dates in YYYY/MM/DD formatted strings. Some would be dates in DD-MM-YY formatted strings. All scattered randomly throughout the data store. Elastic schema means random schema.