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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by GenericsMotors on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:10AM (#15025769)
Agreed; though the way they did their marketing early on the message they conveyed was that document databases were here to replace RDBMSs. It was extremely dishonest.
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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by pritambaral on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:17AM (#15035656)
> early on the message they conveyed was that document databases were here to replace RDBMSs.

The CTO still thinks so. Quote[0]: "MongoDB's CTO disagrees with this statement arguing that nearly 90% of database installations today would benefit from being replaced with MongoDB"

[0]: https://www.nemil.com/mongo/2.html

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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by mattmanser on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @05:01AM (#15025981)
To be fair to them, it wasn't just them, it was everyone.
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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by keithwhor on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @07:22AM (#15026597)
To be more fair to them, it was just them and the "everyone" you're referring to was a result of a fantastic blatant + guerilla marketing campaign. Or maybe I should say a MEAN success? :)
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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by mikekchar on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:36AM (#15026965)
It may seem like that from a certain perspective, but I remember drowning in the hype in 1992. It was going to be the next big thing: everything is going C++; you want objects; why would you store relational tables, when you want objects?; relational databases are just slow, clunky and complicate your code base. The company I was working at even tried it... very briefly :-) Unfortunately, I don't remember what we tried, but there were several around at the time. This stuff wasn't invented by MongoDB.
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