“With MongoDB, setting up transactions was not trivial because it required running MongoDB in cluster mode with various configuration overhead”
Infisical moves over 50 million secrets a day and stored them in a database where transactions needed a production cluster. Without CASCADE, its delete functions “never fully did the job” and left dangling records. After MongoDB switched to SSPL, cloud providers kept offering old versions. A secrets manager with relational data picked a schema-less store because it was familiar, and paid for it with a full rewrite.