> No it wasn't. This is something you heard from people who never really used it. It had its faults but it was never a pile of shit nor was it substantially worse than other databases.

This is FUD, I have used mongodb, I have a certification in mongodb even.

Unless you know precisely what you're doing it's very easy to burn yourself. And mongo markets itself as being "easy to use out of the box" this is not a good thing to do.

I consider MySQL defaults to be unsafe, (as in, it used to corrupt data silently) but it's a godsend compared to the data consistency in mongodb.

There are countless promises it fails to deliver on too, I will not, ever, recommend it for a project. However in recent months I've heard it got better- This means I will stop deriding developers who now use it. But it does not mean I will be realistically allowing its use in the environments I work in. I tend to care about the data consistency in those.