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MongoDB is a really scary database to use at scale.

It doesn't shard nicely. Failovers have rather nasty semantics that can cause nasty bugs in client side code. Performance cliffs abound.

If your datastore is anything over 1TB, I'd be using postgres, or if you can manage it something bigtable-like.



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