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Re:Guide to MongoDB for startups by yukichan on Saturday March 22, 2014 @10:24AM (#7449150)
Aphyr has thoroughly explained what is wrong with MongoDB[1]. I'm quite sure that things aren't probably as swell with your tech stack you might imagine. A commenter here has in the past demonstrated how to cause someone using MongoDB data problems by sending too much information too quickly for MongoDB to handle in a targeted way although I can't find the link to it now. I have been wanting to try it myself to see if I could do it too. Firebase uses MongoDB[2]:

"Firebase stores all its data in MongoDB which offers the built-in capability for apps to scale automatically and gives each piece of data its own unique URL stored in JSON documents."

I was going to see if I can get achieve data consistency problems there for my own firebase app.

Also posts that malign MongoDB frequently make it to the home page [3][4].

[1] http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

[2] http://www.mongodb.org/about/production-deployments/

[3] http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never...

[4] http://www.aaronstannard.com/post/2013/12/19/The-Taxonomy-of...

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Re:Guide to MongoDB for startups by jasonmccay on Saturday March 22, 2014 @11:51AM (#7449485)
Aphyr did the same "Call Me Maybe" posts for other databases as well, highlighting their shortcomings. MongoDB has issues, but other databases have their rough edges as well. It all depends on how you use them.

For a group of people that know nothing but hammers, screwdrivers don't make much sense. This feels often what these "bash Mongo" arguments sound like.

There is no silver bullet. Just flippin' understand the tool you are using and how to use it.

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Re:Guide to MongoDB for startups by AlisdairO on Saturday March 22, 2014 @05:48PM (#7451059)
> Just flippin' understand the tool you are using and how to use it.

If people understand Mongo and its shortcomings, then fair enough. The thing is, those shortcomings are large and far-reaching, and the number of applications for which Mongo is a truly superior long-term choice are relatively few. It's my perception that when the hype around Mongo peaked there was an awful lot of ignorance surrounding the product - the current behaviour towards it is probably a reaction to that.

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