Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB
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Re: Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB
#2This is from 2015.
Re: Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB
#3> .. has an atrociously poor response time to security issues - it took them two years to patch an insecure default configuration that would expose all of your data to anybody who asked, without authentication
I think that points a little unfair, yes a lot of users were compromised but none of them bothered to RTFM.
When I was learning Mongo and got a link to access the database, the literal first thing I asked was well how do I secure it? Taking the time to actually learn the fundamentals of a (then) new technology is never wasted!
Re: Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB
#4> ... is not ACID-compliant
All the other points are interesting, but I'm really tired of people bringing up this fact as a slam against NoSQL databases. Not everyone needs ACID compliance.
Re: Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB
#5This is from 2015.
And...
Re: Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB
#6> ... is not ACID-compliant All the other points are interesting, but I'm really tired of people bringing up this fact as a slam against NoSQL databases. Not everyone needs ACID compliance.
Not being that is one thing, but (at least in the past?) they implemented updates as non-atomic delete and insert, which is just crazy bad. It's one thing not to be ACID but having a query not return some entry at all because it's being concurrently updated is... an interesting design choice.
Edit: link https://blog.meteor.com/-654b6594a827
Re: Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB
#7> .. has an atrociously poor response time to security issues - it took them two years to patch an insecure default configuration that would expose all of your data to anybody who asked, without authentication I think that points a little unfair, yes a lot of users were compromised but none of them bothered to RTFM. When I was learning Mongo and got a link to access the database, the literal first thing I asked was w…
Yes, I'm sure this "blame the user" attitude is how they justified not fixing the issue for so long.
Re: Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB
#8Re: Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB
#9This is from 2015.
Are you saying things have changed, or just that it should be labeled 2015?
Re: Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB
#10200% return since MDB went public. Should I sell or go longer?