What MongoDB got right (2015)
The biggest thing MongoDB got right was putting developer first, optimize for initial experience and development speed.<p>Most database systems came from relation theory background and optimize for performance, operations, data safety, but often developer convenience was sacrificed.<p>Did anybody liked writing data migration? Try explaining value of table migration to some Product Manager of early startup :-).<p>You can argue if that&#x27;s were the right tradeoffs, but that&#x27;s how MongoDB get a lot of steam.