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Internet access is optional, or can be intermittent. If you use the cloud service (consumption based & optional) then you'll need internet access for configuration, logging, etc...…

Minor point, but MongoDB added document validation in 3.2 so you can add guarantees about what documents are being stored. https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/document-validation/…

Have you tried turning on power of 2 allocation? In general, it makes compaction much less important. Though online compaction is definitely needed.

Currently, there is a global read/write lock. MongoDB does extensive yielding and tracking of on vs. off disk to mitigate the effects of this. In subsequent versions (2.2) , we'll …

In addition to the documentation, videos from the conferences are a great place to start: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongoboston-2011/schema-d... http://www.10gen.com/prese…

From CTO of 10gen First, I tried to find any client of ours with a track record like this and have been unsuccessful. I personally have looked at every single customer case that’s …

Durability is a new feature, and should be treated as such. While it is currently not the default, that may change in a later release.

Yes - something that keeps data organized my shard key is being planned.

There are numerous indexes on the data - so actual data is about half of that.

They needed to be able to do some queries on various indexes, so key/value stores wouldn't work. Also MongoDB tends to be only 10% slower then memcache, so not sure why you think i…

Some more info: - 25 x-large ec2 instances - each instance ran mongos, mongod and java loading program - system averaged 5M "ops" per second over many hours Average ops per server:…

Just some thoughts on your downs (i'm a dev, so opinionated in 1 direction :) ) * At least on my 64-bit linux box, mmap page size is 4k. So if you have to read 100 bytes vs 4k, in …