Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:18PM
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There's no secret formula to stop people from competing with you. If MongoDB Inc is successful, it should be because they run a good document-database-as-a-service people want to use, not because they earn indefinite seigniorage from launching a popular open source project.
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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
by sipos on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:17AM
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> If MongoDB Inc is successful, it should be because they run a good document-database-as-a-service people want to use
Unfortunately, something that is good, and something people want to use, are not the same thing. People will use AWS's offering even if it is worse and harder to use, because it is bundled as part of AWS. That is a safe option (it can't be that bad if AWS has released it) and an easy one (no need to think about what to use, you are using AWS already.
Being a big provider of virtual machines puts them in a very strong position to sell loads of other stuff.
Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
by KaoruAoiShiho on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:44PM
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But isn't it wrong to place all economic value in the hosting layer rather than the software layer?
Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
by systoll on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:11PM
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Maybe, but MongoDB did that by themselves by making the software layer free.
Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
by gaius on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:06AM
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because they run a good document-database-as-a-service
Spoiler: they do not
Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
by tebs1200 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:45AM
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They don't?
I've been using Atlas for over a year now and I don't have any complaints. It was super quick to set up and I've never had a single issue in terms of performance or availability.
What have your issues with Atlas been?