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Re:Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB by pnathan on Monday September 17, 2012 @04:12PM (#4534617)
What I like about Mongo is that it's very free-form; I can splat some data in there and not be too concerned about it until later on. I don't really like dealing with file systems for holding data.

Of course Mongo ain't the best at relational data... :o

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Re:Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB by einhverfr on Monday September 17, 2012 @09:28PM (#4535803)
But this is the fundamental trade-off isn't it?

If you aren't concerned about your data on input then you can't reliably transform it on output, right?

In this regard fixed schemas slow down one side of development (handling input) but speed up another side (handling output, and related tasks like reporting).

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Re:Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB by pnathan on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @12:29PM (#4538968)
This is ABSOLUTELY the tradeoff. I am not using Mongo for long-term data storage. I am using it for hacking systems together which need a place to store data. Possibly this data will be manually queried and examined later on, possibly this data lives only a day or two. The entire conversation changes when you are wanting structured data output that is stable and scalable for 10 years.
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