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He's saying that black people and women are under-represented in CS. I think most people would agree that Indians and Chinese people are not underrepresented, but also can face pre…

I interpreted "what is sacrificed?" as asking which letter of CAP MongoDB was giving up. Coda's article actually explains exactly the tradeoffs MongoDB makes for CP: --------------…

MongoDB is partition tolerant and consistent. You can never have multi-master with MongoDB, which is required for "always writable." However, it can be readable. Our CEO did a seri…

10gen doesn't publish any benchmarks. See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Benchmarks for the official position. I transcribed the MongoDB vs. Riak part of the Changelog webcast…

A lot of comments seem to be squabbling over details, but your startup is almost certainly going to fail, and the longer you haggle over splitting proceeds, the more likely failure…

I think it's just an old joke at this point. It's funny the first time you see it and the second time, but the 50th?

(I work on MongoDB, but trying to give a balanced opinion.) Redis is a great key-value store, MongoDB is more of a fully-featured database. Redis has some nice set operations and i…

Journaling should give you the crash-safety you're looking for. You should combine it with safe writes to get the commit safety you want (not the default, but is easy to choose, se…

A lot of people like it because it makes development faster. It's like the scripting language of databases: you can get stuff out the door really fast (with the obvious power/respo…

Actually, the Redis one was a clone of MongoDB's.

Excellent point. MongoDB doesn't claim to be any faster than other dbs at the simple stuff (in fact, it's often slower because we haven't had years to optimize everything). The spe…

No one is ruling it out as being the default in the future. However 1) it was a pretty major code change and 2) this is the first release to make it publicly available. Do you real…

Forget VS, someone should make an emacs extension that does this.

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A lot of people find MongoDB is faster for queries because they avoid a lot of joins.

Sort of. MongoDB tried to keep a lot of the trimmings of a relational database, but remain scalable. Joins are handy, but don't scale well.

GridFS is simple (and probably could be implemented with most DBs) but it was designed to have some nice properties. Notably, you don't have to load the whole file into memory: you…

Describing school as "sitting passively" is a huge generalization. If you have a half-decent school system (which you might not, I was lucky and had a great one) it should be very …

Also Mongo Machine: http://mongomachine.com/

"operation" is updates+inserts+reads+deletes+database commands, in ~1:1:10:1:1 ratio (IIRC). I don't know what the exact operations were, it was supposed to simulate a real-life we…

Yes, exactly. The total was for all operations and, yeah, it's basically a GUI of mongostat.