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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by orf on Thursday October 19, 2017 @09:00PM (#15512833)
https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-4-0-rc3

> MongoDB’s version 0 replication protocol is inherently unsafe.

Tell me again how MongoDB took 8 years to get to the point where its replication is kind of OK.

Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by skrebbel on Friday October 20, 2017 @02:32AM (#15513889)
This subthread is about the future, not the past. 8 years ago, PG didn't have json support so your point is moot.

I'm very curious about what people think about the future of Mongo, independently and particularly in comparison to Postgres. However every time that comes up, people keep bringing up that Mongo was a buggy piece of crap in some irrelevant past. So what?

Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by orf on Friday October 20, 2017 @07:20AM (#15514875)
> This subthread is about the future, not the past. 8 years ago, PG didn't have json support so your point is moot.

8 years ago PG did have replication though, so not sure why it not having feature X 8 years ago makes my point moot.

People keep bringing up that it was a buggy piece of crap because its the icing on the cake and pretty much something you never want your database to be, past or present. Not that software configured by default to eat your data and not persist it can be called a database mind you.

Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by elvinyung on Friday October 20, 2017 @02:50PM (#15518256)
I don't see this as a problem. It takes years for any software project to mature, a DBMS even more so. I'm sure that I can go back to the 1980s and find gamebreaking bugs in the original POSTGRES. It has been years for MongoDB to approach maturity.

Of course I would prefer Postgres when I can use it, and I can generally use it basically all the time, but NoSQL still has its use cases.