Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago

Re:Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago by gbog on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @08:29PM (#4667021)

So you'd rather install a completely new storage engine and learn to use it than check a doc and install an extension to postgres?

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Re:Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago by thibaut_barrere on Thursday October 18, 2012 @03:33AM (#4667805)

The thing is that 10gen did a really, really good job at polishing the install process and documenting it to get people started.

No surprise to see the GIS part of MongoDB is built-in instead of an extension of some kind. I know a couple of people who used PG without even knowing there was a GIS extension.

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Re:Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago by jeltz on Thursday October 18, 2012 @07:01AM (#4668217)

But on the other hand PostGIS being independent from PostgreSQL has resulted in the best opensource GIS database. And with the recent addition of CREATE EXTENSION the PostgreSQL extension installation process has been heavily streamlined. Before CREATE EXTENSION it was a mess for larger extensions.

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Re:Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago by thibaut_barrere on Thursday October 18, 2012 @09:54AM (#4668733)

PostGIS is miles, miles ahead, for sure! Yet even "create extension" sounds a bit weird to most newcomers (me included at first!), especially against "built-in basic GIS".

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Re:Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago by ibotty on Thursday October 18, 2012 @04:23PM (#4670860)

is it a good thing to have everything built in?

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