MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
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Re: MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
#2Is it me..or does Mongo not seem as relevent and 'hip' as it once was... I mean I feel postgres is much more solid, and you can combine some of the aspects of document store via the json data types they added... of course I'm not really a DBA and don't have a lot of Mongo experience ... but personally I feel rdbms make more sense for growth/scaling..
Re: MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
#3Is it me..or does Mongo not seem as relevent and 'hip' as it once was... I mean I feel postgres is much more solid, and you can combine some of the aspects of document store via the json data types they added... of course I'm not really a DBA and don't have a lot of Mongo experience ... but personally I feel rdbms make more sense for growth/scaling..
That's precisely why they IPO'd. Private investors needed an exit while they shift their money to Docker Inc for the next tech hype train.
https://www.hntrends.com/2017/september.html?compare1=Mongod...
Re: MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
#4mongo is web scale! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Re: MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
#5In a world where Giphy is valued by investors at 400M, I'm not sure if half that for mongodb is good or bad.
Re: MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
#6Is it me..or does Mongo not seem as relevent and 'hip' as it once was... I mean I feel postgres is much more solid, and you can combine some of the aspects of document store via the json data types they added... of course I'm not really a DBA and don't have a lot of Mongo experience ... but personally I feel rdbms make more sense for growth/scaling..
To be fair, Mongo is better than it's ever been. They even got through Jepsen just fine after wiredtiger.
That said, it's pretty hard to make sense of when you would want non-relational dbms these days, especially in an era where you can get 100core systems in AWS/GCP. Write-scaling is still a pretty obvious reason, though things like Citus might help here.
Re: MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
#7Is it me..or does Mongo not seem as relevent and 'hip' as it once was... I mean I feel postgres is much more solid, and you can combine some of the aspects of document store via the json data types they added... of course I'm not really a DBA and don't have a lot of Mongo experience ... but personally I feel rdbms make more sense for growth/scaling..
I sorta feel the same way - but then I think about the 800(?) employees they have and their combined skillset in database administration, internals, research, philosophy and I'm left feeling like there has got to be a very strong technical and business use case that I just don't see. Like I would imagine that if I were locked in a room with their Sr. product people and devs, they could easily convince most people of mongodb. I would pay money to see a debate style db-off between Postgres' core devs, and representatives from Mongodb.
Re: MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
#8Twitter...Snapchat....MongoDB...Beware!
Re: MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
#9In a world where Giphy is valued by investors at 400M, I'm not sure if half that for mongodb is good or bad.
They raised 192M but their valuation is much higher.
Re: MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
#10Does anyone use Mongo anymore?
Edit: Honest to god question. I was surprised when I saw the headline, because I've never seen anyone use mongo in production, and never ran into any articles talking about using mongo.