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Re:Why everyone hates MongoDB by corresation on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @02:55PM (#4970599)
It's cool to hate MongoDB

When a product is pushed as essentially a silver-bullet -- often by people who have never and will never actually build anything with it -- it is naturally going to get a lot of backlash by people who see through the problems, and moreso by those who buy the hype and then smash into the reality halfway through their projects.

I speak from personal experience on the first point, while the second has come from countless real-world case studies. A couple of years back I had several widely distributed pieces declared "trolls" because I essentially called for a sobering reset on the NoSQL hype train. Every single thing I said has been well proven out since, so there's that.

Re:Why everyone hates MongoDB by drivebyacct2 on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @03:03PM (#4970636)
Then that's obviously a problem with the people touting MongoDB. It's not an inherent fault in the actual software itself...
Re:Why everyone hates MongoDB by corresation on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @03:07PM (#4970666)
Absolutely and unequivocally true! And the truth is that the actual makers have always been quite reasonable in their claims. But from an industry perspective it is hard to separate the two, much like Visual Basic got most of its bad rap from the people who used Visual Basic than from the platform itself.