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I had such a bad experience with Mongo DB back in 2012-2013 that I don't think I'll ever use it again, or even really consider it. But maybe it's changed and gotten better since then? Anyway. I just use Postgres.
Same. Because I care about my data.
I heard MongoDB is webscale, yeah?
I had such a bad experience with Mongo DB back in 2012-2013 that I don't think I'll ever use it again, or even really consider it. But maybe it's changed and gotten better since then? Anyway. I just use Postgres.
which I think gets little attention because people who use it see it as a secret weapon. Too bad about the license though. Also
and
The quotes from the CEO are misleading, implying MongoDB is document-based and PostgreSQL is 100% relational. This is not true, PostgreSQL has had JSON support for quite some time.
Mongodb certainly isn't doing it.
Their entire value proposition boils down to
create table docs (
doc jsonb
);I was there in 2010s migrating Mongo databases chosen by "expert consultants" to Postgres and dealing with the fallout of massive tech debt those decisions usually caused. Won't get fooled again - no matter how many fluff articles they write you will sooner find me rotting in this barren earth than see me pick MongoDB for a new project.
Weird choice. Doesn't give you much faith they have a lot of examples of companies migrating from Postgres.
I had such a bad experience with Mongo DB back in 2012-2013 that I don't think I'll ever use it again, or even really consider it. But maybe it's changed and gotten better since then? Anyway. I just use Postgres.
If you like the document db idea there are a lot of choices, especially https://arangodb.com/ which I think gets little attention because people who use it see it as a secret weapon. Too bad about the license though. Also https://couchdb.apache.org/ and https://developer.marklogic.com/
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