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Yep. I am working on a Mongo system, started right about when Mongo was peak hype. This application should be using a relational database, but no resume padding for the original developer, and a ton of tech debt and a crappy database for me to work with.



What are the characteristics that make it more relational than non-relational?


Well we effectively have foreign keys between tables / collections. Just none of the benefits.




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