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Re:Failing with MongoDB by jeltz on Saturday November 05, 2011 @06:59PM (#3201180)
I am really happy that this does not exist in the PostgreSQL community despite many of the core developers being consultants who live off solving their clients' problems with PostgreSQL. Maybe this is because it is a community project with no single company in control of it.
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Re:Failing with MongoDB by cperciva on Saturday November 05, 2011 @07:52PM (#3201289)
Maybe this is because it is a community project with no single company in control of it.

Yes. In an organization like Postgresql, someone's contribution is measured by how much they contribute to the code. In an organization like Mysql, someone's contribution is measured by how much they contribute to the bottom line.

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Re:Failing with MongoDB by _delirium on Saturday November 05, 2011 @11:14PM (#3201720)
It also started out as a research project, so for the first 10 years or so of its life, the main incentives for the developers were whether it was producing interesting research papers, rather than number of users.
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Re:Failing with MongoDB by hello_moto on Saturday November 05, 2011 @10:39PM (#3201639)
Unfortunately solid software projects do not get much love these days.

SQLite. FreeBSD. OpenBSD. PostgreSQL. Python (there are some, but Ruby took the thunder).

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