Comment by maxrmk

Yeah fair, I was being a bit lazy here when writing my comment. I've used nosql professionally quite a bit, but always set up by others. When working on personal projects I reach for SQL first because I can throw something together and don't need ideal performance. You're absolutely right that they both have their place.

That being said the question was genuine - because I don't keep up with the ecosystem, I don't know it's ever valid practice to have a nosql db exposed to the internet.