Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
by Drdrdrq on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:02PM
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My experience too, 6 years. Never been a fanboy, but don't understand the hate either. MongoDB never surprised me, the tradeoffs were known in advance (at least the ones that mattered to me).
Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
by takeda on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:02PM
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Based on my experience, your use case was simple enough that any database would do just fine.
Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
by Jare on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:32PM
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Our use case was not simple, but MongoDB made it simple to implement. We used pretty much every feature of MongoDB. Any other database could have been coerced to do what we needed, of course, but with greatly varying degrees of extra complexity or overhead.
MongoDB serviced one of my projects for 5 years without a single hitch. It did everything I wanted it to do, it did it well, it did it exactly as advertised (no more, no less), and it did it right when I needed it. It never stopped improving during those years, massively in some aspects. The company behind it only grew stronger during those years, and along with it, so did my confidence that my project wouldn't need to undergo re-engineering further down the line.
Seriously, as a professional software developer, what more do you want.