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I think people only use it because it stores JSON and let's you query it arbitrarily on demand. It appears to be as good as CouchDB, but with on-demand queries, as good as Postgres, but with JSON (!). It appears to be quick and easy and the tool for the job.

Also, when people say NoSQL they actually mean MongoDB.



> as good as Postgres, but with JSON (!).

PostgreSQL has supported JSON for a good while now, I've even explicitly linked to it in my post. And no, MongoDB is certainly not 'as good' - many of the problems listed simply do not exist in PostgreSQL.


I know. I'm just trying to say what I think people in general think about MongoDB.


> Also, when people say NoSQL they actually mean MongoDB

That's just not true. There are tons of NoSQL solutions that are well known. Redis.


In fact it's quite literally the opposite of true.

Edit: In the sense that there are many, many well-regarded and used NoSql databases.


Cassandra, Couch, Redis, Riak, Dynamo...


Right, I know that, but thank you for listing.


Those are the databases that most people mean when they say NoSQL.


You're not authorized to speak in the name of "most people".


Postgres, MySQL, RethinkDB...




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