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Re: MongoDB security notice

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“Your data is safe, because we’ve never written it to disk.”

Asked 11 years ago and still going strong... "To what extent are 'lost data' criticisms still valid of MongoDB?" - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10560834/to-what-extent-...

HN users would rather meme than read.

Re: MongoDB security notice

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post #55
post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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So nothing has changed in the 3 years since that article?

I am not sure what's going on with Jepsen any more.

https://jepsen.io/analyses

there were zero done in 2021, two in early 2022 and even the footer copyright say 2022.

Re: MongoDB security notice

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post #51

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

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> That they haven't paid for a thorough follow-up analysis after their supposed fix is all one needs to know

As much fun as Jepsen is, I'd probably not follow up with a company that turned my product into a mockery. I enjoy the hell out of reading that report as an outsider, and I personally would be a repeat customer, but I can see how a company might not love the writeup.

Re: MongoDB security notice

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post #22

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They're apparently still growing quite rapidly, though the company is not yet profitable.

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They state these things in their quarterly filings with the SEC, in which to my knowledge it is not legal to knowingly misrepresent facts. If you have actual proof that MongoDBs auditors are lying to the SEC, you can probably get a pretty good whistleblower reward or at the very least make a ton of money selling this money to hedge funds specializing in shorting failing companies.

Re: MongoDB security notice

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post #67
post #13

“Your data is safe, because we’ve never written it to disk.”

Asked 11 years ago and still going strong... "To what extent are 'lost data' criticisms still valid of MongoDB?" - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10560834/to-what-extent-...

Isn’t mongodb data losses commonly referred related to their use of fsync()? From what I vaguely remember they call fsync() every 100ms or so and just assume everything went fine, resulting in potential data loss.

Re: MongoDB security notice

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post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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They state these things in their quarterly filings with the SEC, in which to my knowledge it is not legal to knowingly misrepresent facts. If you have actual proof that MongoDBs auditors are lying to the SEC, you can probably get a pretty good whistleblower reward or at the very least make a ton of money selling this money to hedge funds specializing in shorting failing companies.

The SEC listings don’t contain real numbers about who is using the software. They can claim a bsbillion people use it as long as they can launder investor money into fake usage (like substack does) These numbers support my claim. If they had REALLY been growing they’d be a huge company right now, not having to pay people to use there products
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