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Re:3 reasons to use MongoDB by sv123 on Thursday September 09, 2010 @02:05PM (#1676232)
seems like a relational database to me...only without the ability to join?
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Re:3 reasons to use MongoDB by kchodorow on Thursday September 09, 2010 @03:10PM (#1676500)
Sort of. MongoDB tried to keep a lot of the trimmings of a relational database, but remain scalable. Joins are handy, but don't scale well.
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