Re:Making MySQL Better at GitHub
by lucian1900 on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @04:40AM
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I think you're being too kind.
Many of us who used MongoDB have concluded that there is no task at which it is in any way better than all other existing alternatives.
Re:Making MySQL Better at GitHub
by seabrookmx on Saturday September 06, 2014 @10:27PM
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That's a pretty bold statement. Care to enlighten?
Re:Making MySQL Better at GitHub
by seabrookmx on Saturday September 06, 2014 @10:22PM
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I agree that document-oriented databases don't deserve a lot of the hype they get (use the right tool for the job and all that), but there is definitely some use cases where they make sense.
At my company most of our systems are SQL Server powered, but one of the newer systems that stores large blobs of metadata for products is using Mongo, and it is working quite well.
You are either being disingenuous or you're ignorant.
Many of the companies that switched off MongoDB were growing and ended up moving up to databases like Cassandra. MongoDB is a great database from when you're starting to when you're mid sized.
Cassandra destroys PostgreSQL in scalability but we don't say PostgreSQL is a crap database because of it.
Mongodb is a good db but it is not good for many use cases that people are using them for. There are a lot of companies that realized the mistake and are actively migrating off it. I know we are planning a "Off-Mongo party" with another company once we both manage to migrate off