Why MongoDB? It's the developers, stupid | Linux Today

Why MongoDB? It’s the developers, stupid

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Matt Asay
Jun 12, 2012

Open … and Shut Increasingly the third standard within enterprises for databases, MongoDB, has been claiming a lot of victories lately. In relative terms, it has become the second-hottest skill to have on one’s resume, right after HTML5, according to Indeed.com job trend data. And despite plenty of hating on its technology, with one person telling me recently that “it sets database technology back 25 years,” MongoDB continues to get deployed for numerous, large mission-critical applications.

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