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Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
#12I am still using it for few legacy apps. I don't really love it but it it is rock solid for that payload: mostly just storing simple events. For new projects I just use Postgres, especially after they've introduced json datatype I don't have need for noSQL database for type of projects I am doing.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
#13MongoDB is a pretty good database IMO. I've used it at several companies in the past and wouldn't mind using it again. My favorite DB is RethinkDB. It's a shame that the company behind it fizzled out and was absorbed by Stripe. I still cannot wrap my mind around why it's not more popular. It's similar to MongoDB but much better. It's the perfect database. It adds constraints which improve the quality of your code. Al…
back when mongo was around 2.6x, they had a global write lock.
Also, you'll encounter more problems with mongodb if in case you need transaction. You should check out more discussion here on db systems.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
#14yes. Because we scrape data from different websites, and they each has very a different content format. mongodb handles unstructured data well
Have you compared with postgresql's jsonb?
jsonb is limited in it's querying capabilities. you're essentially casting the json as a string when storing and querying, it's not truly json. therein lies the advantage of document model, native secondary indexes, $ for everry nested layer, etc.
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
#16MongoDB is a pretty good database IMO. I've used it at several companies in the past and wouldn't mind using it again. My favorite DB is RethinkDB. It's a shame that the company behind it fizzled out and was absorbed by Stripe. I still cannot wrap my mind around why it's not more popular. It's similar to MongoDB but much better. It's the perfect database. It adds constraints which improve the quality of your code. Al…
back when mongo was around 2.6x, they had a global write lock. Also, you'll encounter more problems with mongodb if in case you need transaction. You should check out more discussion here on db systems. http://www.redbook.io/
MongoDB 2.6 was released 7 years ago. Why are you bringing it up ?
If you use MongoDB today then (a) there is no global write lock and (b) there are transactions.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
#17MongoDB is a pretty good database IMO. I've used it at several companies in the past and wouldn't mind using it again. My favorite DB is RethinkDB. It's a shame that the company behind it fizzled out and was absorbed by Stripe. I still cannot wrap my mind around why it's not more popular. It's similar to MongoDB but much better. It's the perfect database. It adds constraints which improve the quality of your code. Al…
much of the anti-mongo sentiment is around people who used it in 2009-ish.
it's useful to point out that when using the early version of any software, there will be bugs. that's a trade-off early adopters always need to contend with. unfortunately, it hasn't sat well over time despite every one of the concerns being addressed since.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
#18Yes, still using it for storing relatively unstructured blobs of JSON which I only lookup via key but update with various operators ($addToSet, $set, $incr). Also using it as a persistent session store and lately for storing rate-limiting information. I've come to like the MongoDB update operators and features such as the Change Events. However I will eventually be moving off MongoDB as I need horizontal scaling via shards, and the sharding setup of MongoDB is needlessly complex and brittle. Currently planning to go with ScyllaDB for my large-volume key-value blob datastore and some flavour of SQL for low-volume things which need more complex query behavior (user database, subscriptions). ScyllaDB will present challenges since I still want to have the ability to update single keys in big JSON blobs, even if my only lookup is by key.
If MongoDB came up with a better sharding experience where every box is equal and you don't need the dance with shards on top of replica sets plus mongos plus config servers plus arbiters I might consider it again.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
#19I have never used MongoDB directly, but I can tell you since their license shenanigans I consider it toxic.
Their "we will try some different form of Open Source (which really isn't open source at all, but we still want you to think so, because we know open source is popular) also AWS did something evil by using our software accoding to the license that we used for our software" thing really didn't inspire any trust.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
#20Yes, still use it, together with GridFS. We mostly use it as a persistence store for SOAP message dumps from XML to JSON in Java; everything else usually resides in a Postgres or Aurora RDS database on AWS or some legacy Oracle/MSSQL stuff elsewhere (which we try to get rid of).
The issue with most of this stuff is that a lot of projects just need some persistence and basic querying, and almost any database can do that equally fine. At that point, maintenance, ops workload in general or reliability are the differentiators and most of those go away when you run them as a service with your cloud provider of choice. Which specific one you use is practically selected for you: take all the ones that are compatible with your application or framework and sort by price.