If I never expect the dataset to grow past 1GB and a single server, why would I use anything else? It doesn't really fail - none of the issues described were "failures" really. [edit: just to be clear, it didn't crash and burn, I don't think performance issue == failure] The data loss was not confirmed either: "There appears to be some data loss occurring" and in small deployments you can just use transaction log.
There's no other project I know of, which provides: schemaless json documents, indexing on any part of them, server-side mapreduce, lots of connectors for different languages, atomic updates on part of the document. If there is one and it's better than mongo, I'd switch any moment.
There's no other project I know of, which provides: schemaless json documents, indexing on any part of them, server-side mapreduce, lots of connectors for different languages, atomic updates on part of the document. If there is one and it's better than mongo, I'd switch any moment.