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leob

Mongo is a good choice if you have an app where (a) you don't have an extensive data model with lots of relations/joins (like an accounting system, or other "line of business" apps), and (b) you need to store lots of unstructured data like text, images, video/audio and so on.

So your social media app fits the bill, while I'd never ever try to develop an accounting app with Mongo as the data store :-)

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JDOG787

Ok, good to know. Thanks!