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Re: MongoDB security notice

#111
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Irrelevant but curious if MongoDB is still being picked up for Greenfield projects given it's licensing.

Their license "is to require that enhancements to MongoDB be released to the community." I think it only hurts people who want to freeride the project and extend it for selfish personal gains. That's OK by me.

Not really. It really designed to prevent anyone else having MongoDB DBaaS without having license from MongoDB, which it does rather successfully.

Re: MongoDB security notice

#112
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their license "is to require that enhancements to MongoDB be released to the community." I think it only hurts people who want to freeride the project and extend it for selfish personal gains. That's OK by me.

That's reply to Amazon abuse of MongoDB (DocumentDB)

It is the opposite. Amazon would have released MongoDB as a service, same as they do for PostgreSQL or MySQL. As MongoDB changed license they implemented DocumentDB instead.

Note AWS significantly contributes to PostgreSQL and MySQL communities (though you could always want even more) but of course does not to MongoDB. While this is fine for MongoDB Inc I think it is not great for MongoDB community at large

Re: MongoDB security notice

#113

I never used/tried MongoDB, what are the reasons people choose MongoDB over other DBs?

It's a really great alternative to firebase for mobile apps. Works pretty nicely with Realm so you get offline first db with powerful syncing. All the benefits of realm on the edge device with the power of the mongo platform. I dismissed mongo atlas for years because "mongo", until I finally gave it a chance. Overall been pretty pleased.

> It's a really great alternative to firebase for mobile apps.

Isn't firebase built on top of mongoDb?

Re: MongoDB security notice

#114

Nice and to the point, makes it clear that this is early, explains the current scope, tells us to expect a follow up as the information makes its way to them. I like this tbh and I hope people won't punish them for not including more info when this is clearly in the early days of investigation.

Agreed.

For all the shit MongoDB gets, this is something that people should take a step back and recognize as very high in integrity, transparency, and trust.

Other businesses should follow their lead here.

I'm more inclined to do business with MongoDB because they've demonstrated these principles first-hand.

Re: MongoDB security notice

#117

I never used/tried MongoDB, what are the reasons people choose MongoDB over other DBs?

It was an early player when everyone thought NoSQL document databases solved every problem.

And now everyone knows RDBMS solves every problem. Especially when it's SQLite.

Re: MongoDB security notice

#118
post #97
post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, Jepsen has not only confirmed but later reconfirmed that MongoDB has for many years been on par with other NoSQL databases when it comes to transaction guarantees and data consistency.

Er...no.... "Jepsen Disputes MongoDB’s Data Consistency Claims" - https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/Jepsen-MongoDB-4-2-6/

Those same issues exist in most NoSQL databases. If you're going to avoid MongoDB for data safety reasons, you should just go straight to SQL.
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