Re:Why MongoDB is a bad choice for storing our scraped data
by snaky on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @12:13PM
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Because the koolaid is so sweet.
MongoDB is every developer's wet dream. With it's expressive query syntax and extreme ease of use, everyone wants to drink the koolaid. This is a huge problem, because mongodb as a database is dangerous
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I have developers begging me to let them use it. This time to collect logs from our servers for analysis later. I cave in, and give my go ahead, with a warning saying that no critical data can enter that section. Mongo processes were crashing. Several times per day. About 20% of the crashes yielded a completely corrupted database. This programmers wet dream quickly shows itself to be a serious operations nightmare.
MongoDB is every developer's wet dream. With it's expressive query syntax and extreme ease of use, everyone wants to drink the koolaid. This is a huge problem, because mongodb as a database is dangerous
[..]
I have developers begging me to let them use it. This time to collect logs from our servers for analysis later. I cave in, and give my go ahead, with a warning saying that no critical data can enter that section. Mongo processes were crashing. Several times per day. About 20% of the crashes yielded a completely corrupted database. This programmers wet dream quickly shows itself to be a serious operations nightmare.
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