Re:The genius and folly of MongoDB
by rdtsc on Monday October 21, 2013 @12:15AM
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What is impractical is that something like brakes not working is not something you want to find in the manual on page 54. You don't want the car to start without that feature unless you enter a special code, and confirm you know what you are doing.
A database that has default configured that ends up corrupting users' data silently is like buying a car with the brakes disabled.
Well except that in the car case may brakes disabled won't make the car go faster, but in case of MongoDB I remember fans strutting write benchmarks around comparing it to Postgres, Couch and other database and telling how it is webscale. The reason that design decision was made is shady. That was my initial point.
A database that has default configured that ends up corrupting users' data silently is like buying a car with the brakes disabled.
Well except that in the car case may brakes disabled won't make the car go faster, but in case of MongoDB I remember fans strutting write benchmarks around comparing it to Postgres, Couch and other database and telling how it is webscale. The reason that design decision was made is shady. That was my initial point.