A topic that came up at the meetup today:
There are many articles online suggesting that MongoDB is often not the ideal option. I’m wondering what people here think.
Here is a sample of the articles:
- Why you should never use mongodb
- Why you should never ever ever use mongodb
- The problem with mongodb
- Was mongodb ever the right choice?
I suspect that MongoDB probably has its use cases (high volume analytics?), and it’s sometimes useful for quickly building small projects, but I wonder if coding bootcamps put too much emphasis on learning it. Are there really a lot of jobs out there where the companies would expect you to know MongoDB (or any no-SQL database as the main database) while not knowing SQL?
I don’t really have a strong opinion on it, and my post isn’t meant to bash MongoDB. I think it’s good to know MongoDB, but I’m just not sure if no-SQL is the first thing that people should reach for in many cases. If I had a bootcamp, I’d probably teach SQL first and only use Mongo for a quick 2-day project to give a little exposure to it — maybe something like a web scraper.
See also mongodb alternatives.
Let me know what you think. 