Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions

Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by leviself on Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:58AM (#5888825)

Just curious, why is Mongo not good enough or do you just mean as opposed to BigTable?

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Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by jmillikin on Sunday June 16, 2013 @12:03PM (#5888847)

We have BigTable and protobufs and real MapReduce, so there's no reason to use MongoDB with its JSON storage and Javascript-based mapReduce() function. It's like comparing CSV to SQLite.

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Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by twic on Sunday June 16, 2013 @07:51PM (#5890594)

So what's PostgreSQL in that analogy?

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Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by jmillikin on Sunday June 16, 2013 @08:05PM (#5890643)

Spanner, I suppose.

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Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by btilly on Sunday June 16, 2013 @01:50PM (#5889222)

A major need for a company like Google is visibility into their distributed architecture. When you make every component be built on their libraries running on their architecture, you have a common toolset across all of your properties to track any performance problem back to its root cause.

MongoDB does not provide this type of visibility. Either within that common toolset or in any other way.

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Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by bhickey on Sunday June 16, 2013 @12:47PM (#5888993)

Technical points aside, MongoDB is licensed under the AGPL. Why would I use it when freer alternatives exist?

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