RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software

Re:RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Op... by DigitalJack on Friday October 07, 2016 @07:14PM (#12664646)

All these comments are starting to make me feel stupid. I picked mongo for a side project, and it's been really nice so far. I have a hard time imagining how one would use it for a complicated and/or large schema though. I assume that is just my newness to it.

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Re:RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Op... by jpgvm on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:43PM (#12664991)

Don't feel bad for not understanding how to make it work for a big project, it just doesn't. You can try make it work for a big project, but at that point you are just implementing database level code in your application.

Better to just use something like PostgreSQL. Contrary to popular belief PostgreSQL is actually a better document store than MongoDB via it's jsonb type, operators and GIST/GIN indexing.

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Re:RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Op... by __jal on Friday October 07, 2016 @07:52PM (#12664809)

Nope, you have it right. Mongo is a lot of fun to play with out of the box. Once you have nontrivial data models, redundancy and load, not so much.

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