Re:A Year of MongoDB
by drorweiss on Friday May 10, 2013 @05:04PM
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After 6 intensive months with MongoDB to build my MVP, I just love it.
For sure, it's not perfect. Lack of joins is a shame, but can be quite easily solved outside the database.
But the ease of use and speed of development are such a HUGE advantage. Not having to break my schema into normalized relations and define it in the DB saved me literally days of work.
I can imagine a case that 1 year from now, when our product will be more mature, we'll be leaving mongodb for another SQL or No-SQL database. Doesn't matter. The benefit that mongodb gives us now justifies the costs the may be incurred years from now.
For sure, it's not perfect. Lack of joins is a shame, but can be quite easily solved outside the database.
But the ease of use and speed of development are such a HUGE advantage. Not having to break my schema into normalized relations and define it in the DB saved me literally days of work.
I can imagine a case that 1 year from now, when our product will be more mature, we'll be leaving mongodb for another SQL or No-SQL database. Doesn't matter. The benefit that mongodb gives us now justifies the costs the may be incurred years from now.