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Re:MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmf... by chris_wot on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @06:16AM (#6717091)
The reason I dislike MongoDB is that it shipped with unsafe defaults for years and caused people to lose data because of that.

Surely when using any sort of new technology, you'd do some basic research about write concerns, durability, etc. first? If you just lazily adopt a new technology without reading the documentation, that seems like a bit if a recipe for disaster to me...

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Re:MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmf... by regularfry on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @06:50AM (#6717203)
"Safe by default" is not a revolutionary concept. That's the reason I won't touch Mongo - not because of any specific bug or failing, but because it was designed from the outset without a consideration for what I consider a pretty fundamental engineering principle.
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