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Re: Don't use MongoDB

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Post by price »

nomoremongo wrote: post #169
nomoremongo wrote: post #154

Pastebin author here. Refutations are going to fall into two categories, it seems: 1. Questioning my honesty 2. Questioning my competence Re #1, I'm not sure what you imagine my incentive to lie might be. I honestly just intended this to benefit the community, nothing more. I'm genuinely troubled that it might cause some problems for 10gen, b/c, again, Eliot & co are nice people. Re #2, all I can do is attempt to rea…

Some are also (fairly) questioning "why the anonymity?", and "where is the evidence?" Those two things are connected: I can't provide the evidence without revealing identity. And the reason for the anonymity is we still have some small databases with 10gen and a current support contract. I had intended to go public with all this after we had transitioned off the system entirely, but more and more reports have continu…

Reading this overall thread, I think you didn't have as much of an impact on people's thinking as you'd probably like to. I hope after your company finishes transitioning you do go public on this, with all the specific evidence.

Re: Don't use MongoDB

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Post by bitops »

This post is unparalleled FUD. We use MongoDB in production and all the issues we've encountered have been either environment or configuration related.

There are plenty of things about MongoDB I don't like but this OP is a total coward. If you've got something to say, put your name on it and come out in the open.

This type of post is the worst of its "hiding behind Internet anonymity" kind.

And for the record, I don't think Oracle is behind this. They're confident in their Exadata offering and have little to gain by posting this kind of crap around MongoDB. Besides, Larry Ellison has never been afraid to openly taunt his competitors.

Re: Don't use MongoDB

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Post by martin_sunset »

kanwisher wrote: post #217
skrebbel wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you want to come talk to the MongoDB team, both our offices hold open office hours[2] where you can come and talk to the actual development teams. We try to be incredibly open, so please come and get to know us. I envy how all your (potential) customers are from California.

Half the startups in NYC use mongo, but that might be cause they are connected to Union Sq Ventures

Or it might be because MongoDb really shines in the typical start-up use case...

Re: Don't use MongoDB

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Post by nmongo »

DISCLAIMER: I submitted this story and it is in fact a hoax that has gone too far, you got trolled, truly frightening how gullible most of you are. DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ ON THE INTERNET!

Re: Don't use MongoDB

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Post by einhverfr »

martin_sunset wrote: post #243
kanwisher wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Half the startups in NYC use mongo, but that might be cause they are connected to Union Sq Ventures

Or it might be because MongoDb really shines in the typical start-up use case...

Or at least better than MySQL for cases where not all data fits a perfect relational model?

Re: Don't use MongoDB

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Post by nmongo »

ehwizard wrote: post #138

From CTO of 10gen First, I tried to find any client of ours with a track record like this and have been unsuccessful. I personally have looked at every single customer case that’s every come in (there are about 1600 of them) and cannot match this story to any of them. I am confused as to the origin here, so answers cannot be complete in some cases. Some comments below, but the most important thing I wanted to say is…

I SUBMITTED THIS STORY AND IT IS IN FACT A HOAX!

Re: Don't use MongoDB

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Post by nmongo »

harryh wrote: post #141

Hi, I run engineering for foursquare. About a year and a half ago my colleagues and I and made the decision to migrate to MongoDB for our primary data store. Currently we have dozens of MongoDB instances across several different data clusters storing over a TB of data and handling 10s of thousands of requests per second (mostly reads but the write load is reasonably high as well). Have we run into problems with Mongo…

I SUBMITTED THIS STORY AND IT IS IN FACT A HOAX!

Re: Don't use MongoDB

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Post by nmongo »

antirez wrote: post #26

I appreciate the "public service" intend of this blog post, however: 1) It is wrong to evaluate a system for bugs now fixed (but you can evaluate a software development process this way, however it is not the same as MongoDB itself, since the latter got fixed). 2) A few of the problems claimed are hard to verify, like subsystems crashing, but users can verify or deny this just looking at the mailing list if MongoDB h…

I SUBMITTED THIS STORY AND IT IS IN FACT A HOAX!

Re: Don't use MongoDB

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Post by nmongo »

nullymcnull wrote: post #139

These posts are exceptionally well-timed for me. I'm currently wrangling with one of those problems that is just not solved well with relational databases, or even the flat document store that my company already uses. I've been looking hard at Redis and Mongo, and of late I'm leaning towards Mongo. You know what? Having read these posts and the threads - and having extracted what little in the way of factual datapoin…

I SUBMITTED THIS STORY AND IT IS IN FACT A HOAX!

Re: Don't use MongoDB

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Post by nmongo »

latch wrote: post #16

There's a lot of anonymity going on here. A new HN account, an unknown company and product, and claims with no evidence. Why are't links to 10gen's Jira provided? Where's the test code that shows the problems they had with the write lock? This is an extremely shallow analysis.

I SUBMITTED THIS STORY AND IT IS IN FACT A HOAX!
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