I hate and fear lots of technologies. When you struggle against a bad technology decision at a company for weeks, months, or years, hatred/fear is justifiable.

Luckily, I don't care what "companies all over the globe" are doing. I'm paid to know the difference between cargo-cult decisions and good decisions.

Interesting to see Mongo's (in)famous marketing in action again, though![1] I'll stick to equally-or-more popular products that succeeded on technical merits instead of marketing (e.g. Postgres).

1. https://www.nemil.com/mongo/3.html

mongodb employee here

https://www.mongodb.com/who-uses-mongodb

I don't see a ton of hatred and fear from Cisco, Facebook and Google.

I dig what they've done, especially facebook, with MongoDB. Reconsider 2012 opinions and read about 2017's MongoDB.

Instead of insulting me with the implication that I don't keep up with major technologies in my industry, you probably would've been more convincing if you'd told me what's changed since 2012. However, I do keep up with Mongo, and I do know what's changed.

It still doesn't make me want to use it. Relational data is better for most applications, Redis is better for many others, and I can have both documents and relational data in the same database with PG[1].

It seems like many other people with Mongo experience feel the same way[2].

1. http://www.aptuz.com/blog/is-postgres-nosql-database-better-...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125984