Yes problem were people. Too much politics and that's why I left. Why more data? In case of IP geolocation neither of that technology understood IPs not to men

Yes problem were people. Too much politics and that's why I left. Why more data? In case of IP geolocation neither of that technology understood IPs not to mention being able to create a proper index for ranges. So in case of Mongo, to get a good performance they decided to generate every possible IPv4 address and map it to zip code. To increase efficiency they stored every IP as a 64 bit integer. In Coherence they did the same thing, but I guess less efficiently (did not look how it was done, since at the time coherence was in the process of being eliminated) I'm guessing maybe they stored is as a string? Also note that Coherence is a distributed cache that supposed to withstand couple nodes going down, so a lot of data was duplicated.