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Whenever I have talked to people choosing Mongodb, it always came down to two things: 1. Not knowing a about Postgres JSONB column type (which behaves pretty m
by sandGorgon 9y ago
Whenever I have talked to people choosing Mongodb, it always came down to two things:
1. Not knowing a about Postgres JSONB column type (which behaves pretty much like Mongodb)
2. Not knowing about Amazon RDS as a single click hosting option for Postgres.
Most people run their own Mongodb servers...Which is what gives the impression of "easy to get started".
And here's the other truth as well - People painfully move back to Postgres after losing data. Not because of "oh we can now afford to do SQL" or "oh our data model now needs Postgres". But plain and simple - they lost data that they can't admit to in public.
- vacri 9y ago1. Hardly fair, considering that Postgres JSONB is only 2.5 years old, and the marketing fanfare around Mongo had largely petered out at that point. I've been involved in three companies which use mongo, and all of them selected it before JSONB was in Postgres.
- sandGorgon 9y agoI'm not quite sure what has time got to do with it. I don't believe I mentioned that this was more than 2.5 years ago. I'm talking contemporary companies - Mongodb still holds far higher startup mind share than Postgres. MEAN/MERN stack is still a thing.