Re:Why you should never use MongoDB (2013)
by marcosdumay on Monday August 15, 2016 @01:40PM
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No idea about what MongoDB would be good for, but:
> In what case is it every acceptable for a data store to lose data?
This is usually acceptable on analytics data, session data, on most of the "big data" applications... In fact, data that you can not lose whatever happens is the exception, not the rule.
Anyway, when in doubt, it's certainly better to err to the side of security, not risk. Even more because all that security is already written into some middleware that you can simply install and use.
> In what case is it every acceptable for a data store to lose data?
This is usually acceptable on analytics data, session data, on most of the "big data" applications... In fact, data that you can not lose whatever happens is the exception, not the rule.
Anyway, when in doubt, it's certainly better to err to the side of security, not risk. Even more because all that security is already written into some middleware that you can simply install and use.