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Re:MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative by threeseed on Monday November 01, 2021 @04:40PM (#29072762)
I don’t need to have deep insights. Developers almost always have to justify why they pick certain technologies.

And given how old MongoDB is not sure how it benefits anyone’s resume.

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Re:MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative by marginalia_nu on Monday November 01, 2021 @04:45PM (#29072868)
If you don't understand their motivations, how can you claim to know their motivations?
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Re:MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative by halostatue on Monday November 01, 2021 @05:37PM (#29073485)
There are thousands of projects where MongoDB was selected precisely because it was a new-shiny No SQL thingy.

For some of these things, it may have been the right thing. For most of them, it was a chance to play with new technologies. I have seen multiple commercial projects where MongoDB was chosen by the developers with _no_ oversight by management (I have killed a couple of those projects, too, because MongoDB was always the wrong technology).

The original comment about the number of projects where MongoDB was chosen under résumé-driven-development is absolutely correct. That doesn’t make it _bad_; how _else_ is one supposed to get experience with new technologies than to try something new? (Sticking with Mongo after multiple data-loss incidents due to the “architecture” of Mongo, on the other hand…)

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