Re:MLab is being acquired by MongoDB
by danpalmer on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:49AM
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Postgres used to benchmark faster than MongoDB as a document store when compared to MongoDB running with a reasonable reliability setting. Not sure if that has changed in the last few years though - Mongo has improved a bit, and Postgres is getting faster on each release.
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Let the tired old irrelevant Mongo-flamewars begin!
Re:MLab is being acquired by MongoDB
by danpalmer on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @09:02AM
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As much as I agree, the arguments are a bit tired, I think the criticism can be useful.
There's a tendency in web development towards using well known stacks, and some of them are quite poor choices for most projects. MongoDB features heavily in these stacks despite relational databases being a better fit most of the time, possibly because there's less visibility of alternatives in the JS community.