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Yes, use it with Atlas for every one of my companies' projects.

- The document model is a no-brainer when working with JS on the front-end. I have JSON from the client, and Dictionaries on the backend (Flask), so it's as easy as dumping into the DB via the pymongo driver. No object relational mapping.

- Can scale up/down physical hardware as needed so we only pay for what we use

- Sharding is painfully easily, with one click

- Support has been incredible

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This is a great testimonial. Would you care to share what Atlas is/which software package Atlas is?

They probably mean https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas

Mongodb Atlas is their hosted DB as A Service. They will manage the infrastructure for you on any of the major cloud providers at a premium rate.

I'd echo most of those sentiments, but not all: + Support on Atlas is good + Set up process is very streamlined and smooth + Modifications (scaling IOS etc) are all very easy, but ... - The Atlas web client had a bug that swapped data types (fixed, but still) - The database starts off fast, but seemed to get quite slow considering how small it was (fitted entirely in RAM) - The latest Jepsen report suggests t is still very cavalier with data integrity (http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6)

My experience has been the same, for I only used it for a couple weeks now. I love their web interface - anyone knows if there are any cloud offerings for PostgresSQL which are similar?

I've used mongo before and I just started using Atlas. Anything you don't like about it?

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