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But that’s sort of the point. You are saying “if you have a DBA and use proprietary products and have the skill to understand the trade offs of running a db with another data warehouse product layered in you can handle GB of data”.

Mongo said “Throw data at me and I’ll scale with very little work”.

Now, I’ve always largely believed that’s penny wise and pound foolish but it’s certainly a good pitch.

>>kasey_+(OP)
"mongo said" - the obligatory mongo DB is webscale video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

>>kasey_+(OP)
Which is what I originally stated "boil down to not learning how powerful SQL and its programming extensions are".

One can only have bought into Mongo's story, by lacking the skills to understand how fake it was.