Have to agree, mongo is seriously good for spin up as you put it, pretty much zero configuration, define your "database" schema directly in your app as you make your models (at least thats how it works with mongoose.) Can't get much faster than that. How does the python side of things go?

I don't really understand the hate for mongo.. most of the problems people have with it are problems said people would never face with any data store. Its good at what it does. I think it mostly becomes a problem when people try to use it for something they should be using a relational database for.