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They have some unique requirements to host within their own VPC. I just use mlab.
My company does bespoke software development for large enterprises. If they're on AWS having all your services within a VPC you control is something of table stakes for a lot of large company engineering and security teams.
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They probably mean that they wanted the DB hosted within the private subnet of their VPC. With a traditional hosted offering you’d connect over the public net to a system hosted by the SaaS provider. With RDS they could spin up the DB within their own VPC.
Couldn't they do this by using Atlas and choosing AWS as the host?
As a reminder, PostgreSQL is distributable under a license that's basically BSD/MIT: https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/ MongoDB, on the other hand, recently changed their license to an abomination that many people think is no longer Free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18301116
Because there is no company behind PG, no one is loosing money if FANG get your app for free and build something around it. You should ask Redis, Grafana, Nginx ect ... if they're happy about super large company doing that kind of thing.
I now use json supported functions in SQL Server and do not have the need for a different type of database. SQL Server handles my small 'documents db' implementation with the infrastructure of a RDMS. Win win for me.
To me Mongo just got popular by mistake way too early. It's like having a celebrity retweet your post because they liked what they saw at the time, exposing you to the world where everyone now thinks you have something important to say. Not surprisingly, you don't!
They have some unique requirements to host within their own VPC. I just use mlab.
Define unique? My company does bespoke software development for large enterprises. If they're on AWS having all your services within a VPC you control is something of table stakes for a lot of large company engineering and security teams.
"Goodbye {Postgres|Mongo|MySQL}, Hello {MySQL|Mongo|Postgres}"
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The way I read it, mongo was hosted the same way postgres was - on AWS VMs. OpsManager wanted to be more like a SaaS. I'm a little skeptical of the idea that you can do custom software development with a custom database schema and realistically expect to outsource DB management. But sure, you can try. And in any case, you'd hope a largely read-only and document oriented dataset like a newspaper's has a relatively sim…
Why wouldn’t you be able to outsource database server management? Are you referring to outsourcing schema management?
I'm sure you can get advice or buy know-how; but they're too coupled to think you're not also going to need to spend some time too. (At least: assuming your workload is large enough and complicated enough that naive brute force isn't an attractive option).
https://www.mongodb.com/customers/guardian
https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/mongodb-guardian
https://www.slideshare.net/tackers/why-we-chose-mongodb-for-...
And reupping my previous, three-part series on MongoDB:
On MongoDB
NoSQL databases were the future. MongoDB was the database for "modern" web engineers and used by countless startups. What happened?