MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com)

"MongoDB is increasingly encroaching on Oracle's database lead -- with enterprises becoming more and more confident with the maturing NoSQL technology," according to Diginomica, citing this new interview with CEO Dev Ittycheria: 30% of our business is migration off existing workloads to us. Two years ago it was 5%. Ditching Oracle and others, but mainly Oracle... one of the nice benefits of being in this market is that Oracle has done a great job of alienating its customer base... if there are performance reasons, regulatory reasons, developer demand -- [people] will change... We have grown business by 2.5X over last two years. And our employee base has pretty much doubled.
One reason he cites is Oracle's higher prices on their top-line products, saying MongoDB's new customers include "a large bank, whose logo you would recognize instantly [with] a very sophisticated equities trading platform." Ittycheria says MongoDB is now a nine-figure business, and after they launched their new database-as-a-service product Atlas last June, "the growth in that business has been off the charts."

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If all you have is a hammer...

[snookiex]

I won't waste my time explaining you why NoSQL databases are suitable for many use cases, as your post is a flamebait, however I will tell you a bit about my first-hand experience: I'm one of the developers of an open source network inventory application (see signature). We started out by using an RDBMS, but one of the requirements was to provide a dynamic data model and using a schema-based database brought a lot of problems to the table. Besides, we quickly realized that the best way to represent a network was not a bunch of linked tables but a graph, because that's what telecommunications networks are.