MongoDB today ?
2017 : MongoDB proudly announced that relational databases were dead and "old school".
2021 : it is no more true. Structured, semi-structured and unstructured data are more and more supported in relational databases engines vendors : MySQL 8.0, MariaDB 10.6... More to come, Oracle JSON datatype introduced...
Today, not sure I would choose MongoDB for any new project for document storing. Transactions and integrity have still restrictions, modifying sharding is still not easy.
#mysql #mariadb
Some use cases need relation databases In some situation, json is a better choice No opposite positions from my perspective: use the right format for your application Oracle have advanced to offer both capabilities for the applications