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Nice. But I have a difficult time seeing how storing "malleable" data like that, opaque to the storage engine, is going to be performant for querying. Must be

• paulgb 17y ago
  The database is still aware of the fields, so MongoDB can build indices on certain fields if you wish. Admittedly I haven't deployed Mongo in an environment that really tested its performance, but we've been serving about 20k pageviews per day with no issues. Granted, this was a fairly basic application. As for changing requirements, mongo handled those well too. It's certainly not a silver bullet, but when I just need a basic object store the query performance trade-off is worth it.