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Re:A Year with MongoDB by alexchamberlain on Friday April 13, 2012 @03:51PM (#3838559)
I am a schemaless believer.

BUT (big BUT) have you ever tried to program to a schema that has a XML blob? It's really difficult and painfully slow on the app side. The ops guys like it, because it's easy for them to maintain.

Re:A Year with MongoDB by radicalbyte on Friday April 13, 2012 @05:53PM (#3839021)
I find it much easier, but then I rely on a framework for serialization/de-serialization..