MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO

Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by Arnt on Friday October 20, 2017 @04:11AM (#15514255)

It was picked up due to merit, IMNSHO, just not the for the factors you think highly of.

It didn't do ACID, not even nearly, but it did other praiseworthy things, with "laser focus on four critical things: onboarding, usability, libraries and support" (https://www.nemil.com/mongo/2.html). Please don't be disparaging about any of those four.

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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by hodgesrm on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:33AM (#15516552)

Amen to that. The first time I used MongoDB it was stupid easy to get started. We implemented data replication from MySQL into MongoDB in a 3 hour hackathon, something that would have taken at least a week for a relational database. For a full description of the experience see:

http://scale-out-blog.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-mysql...

Don't put down 'easy'. It's incredibly hard to do well.

P.s., I'm DBMS guy and have lived and breathed Jim Grey-style transactional consistency for decades. I'm still impressed by what they did.

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