Initial storage was traditional MySQL. The pace of changes during a startup mode made it very difficult to have a clean and consistent schema. Large portions ended up as unstructured data stuffed into CLOBs and BLOBs.

Moving to MongoDB definitely made this part much easier.

Accessing data for analysis is a little bit of a challenge - especially for people coming from the world of SQL Workbench. But with tools like Exploratory this is becoming less of a problem.

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