Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

Re:Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres by InGodsName on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:44PM (#18718783)

Old versions of mongo were very bad.

We accured lots of downtime due to mongo.

But later versions were rock solid and I've matainer mongo installations at many startup and SMEs once you setup alertd for disk/memory usage, off you go. Works like charm 99% of the times.

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Re:Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres by kbenson on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:50PM (#18718861)

MogoDB is proof that with the right strategy, marketing and luck, you really can fake it until you make it.

Not that that's really a surprise or was unknown, it's just fairly new to see in the open source ecosystem instead of the enterprise one.

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Re:Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres by badloginagain on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:22PM (#18719184)

I'd posit its more a matter of maturing a new paradigm. There's a lot more edge cases you have to cover as NoSQL became more popular for production-at-scale.

SQL has decades of production maturation, and has wider domain knowledge.

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Re:Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres by kbenson on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:03PM (#18719587)

I'm sure there's some of that. But a lot of the early problems were a bit more weighted towards poor engineering in general, IIRC. For example, I seem to recall an early problem was truncating large amounts of data on crash occasionally.

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Re:Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres by bigiain on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:26PM (#18720968)

That's probably true.

Unfortunately the number of my customers who would sign off on just "two nines" is approximately zero...

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