Re:Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Indexing JSON data with j...
by moe on Monday November 17, 2014 @11:57AM
(#8619051)
PG also had some failures
MongoDB loses acknowledged writes in its supposed "highest consistency" mode.
PostgreSQL does not.
That's a pretty fundamental difference, don't you think?
Re:Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Indexing JSON data with j...
by Xylakant on Monday November 17, 2014 @01:06PM
(#8619456)
MongoDB was tested in a replicated setup, PG not, that's a pretty fundamental difference. Loosing acked writes in a master-slave replication with failover would be expected with a sufficiently large replication lag even for PG.
MongoDB is about the last database I'd pick for any given scenario, but I acknowledge that there are people that have a usecase where it might be a good fit because the tradeoffs work out for them.
Failures are just a property of distributed systems, some fail in ways that are better for you, some fail in ways that are worse, but sooner or later they all fail. It's a tradeoff which one you choose.