[dblooman]

ELI5, why do people still choose to use mongo?

[redwood]

The continuous availability and horizontal scalability of the distributed system coupled with developer experience--document model, secondary indexes, all of that certainly has captivated a large and growing developer community… you could boil it down to a confluence of ease of use with the advanced capabilities that you may need if you are successful… still they would have petered out if it wasn't for Atlas which makes all of the above that much more accessible

[menaerus]

Obvious, it's because MongoDB is web scale.

[fullstackchris]

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