Is MongoDB the right choice for your application? Are you aware of disadvantages?
Disclaimer: I’ve worked with ME*N stack for +2 years in production in a well-known company and this is the summary of problems that we’ve endured.
One of the most powerful things about MongoDB is the way it stores the data in a single collection. MongoDB lets you store the data in a de-normalized or normalized way, but most of the time both of them are EVIL!
- Why MongoDB way of de-normalizing may be bad?
Generally, the main goal of de-normalizing data is achieving better performance by removing JOINs. However, de-normalizing the data is recommended only when sub-fields ( like “address” and “contact” in the above example ) will be needed when the user is accessed. …
