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I am thinking about writing a quick chat application for a client to help them solve some of their communication needs. Clearly, writing a simple chat is no brainer, but the company have serious scaling needs, so it is probably a good idea to build the service on a noSQL storage from the beginning.
Besides the obvious lack of transactions, which isn’t one of our concerns, is it a good idea to use a noSQL storage for a chat?
MongoDB should be good enough if you’re after scalability and performance. Most SQL engines would be overkill for this stuff. I doubt if you need complex data aggregation and other queries for chat data. Even with that, MongoDB has map-reduce capability to help you along.