There is a well-known rant on MongoDB ranking high at HackerNews right now. In case you haven't stumbled upon it, here is the link to it: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=FD3xe6Jt I'd like to call the opinion leak over at Pastebin as the MongoGate rant. But, limiting the discussion on MongoDB alone is plain wrong. The marketing fluff around NoSQL is the problem. And I'd like to tell you why I think