Why Did I Come to MongoDB?
People ask me this often enough that I decided to put it on my home page: “Aren’t you one of the SQL folks? Why would one of you join MongoDB?” For me, it was always about delighting customers; SQL and Relational were just a means to that end. Databases are indeed amazing because of the promises around data in terms of consistency, ease of use, and durability that they make to customers. I sat with one of my old relational friends about a year ago, in Oct of 2019, before MongoDB was even a gleam in my eye, and we decided that 30 years into our careers, databases were still hard to use by operators and developers, but especially developers (cloud has made operator job a lot easier). They were also still unpredictable and didn’t defend themselves against misuse. Not only that, but scalability and distribution were bolted on as afterthoughts rather than core elements of the product – making scaling either difficult or impractical or brittle. ...