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'Hatred and fear" ? This is a database we are talking about? Companies all over the globe are betting their businesses on MongoDB and succeeding. e.g. most re

'Hatred and fear" ? This is a database we are talking about? Companies all over the globe are betting their businesses on MongoDB and succeeding. e.g. most recently Ticketek http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/mongo-migration-just-the-ticket/news-story/fa3356b5ac731fa606b1bfa6252ab218 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/mongo-mi...

jaydestro 9y ago
mongodb employee here https://www.mongodb.com/who-uses-mongodb https://www.mongodb.com/who-uses-mongodb I don't see a ton of hatred and fear from Cisco, Facebook and Google. I dig what they've done, especially facebook, with MongoDB. Reconsider 2012 opinions and read about 2017's MongoDB.
- smt88 9y ago
  Instead of insulting me with the implication that I don't keep up with major technologies in my industry, you probably would've been more convincing if you'd told me what's changed since 2012. However, I do keep up with Mongo, and I do know what's changed. It still doesn't make me want to use it. Relational data is better for most applications, Redis is better for many others, and I can have both documents and relational data in the same database with PG[1]. It seems like many other people with Mongo experience feel the same way[2]. 1. http://www.aptuz.com/blog/is-postgres-nosql-database-better-than-mongodb/ http://www.aptuz.com/blog/is-postgres-nosql-database-better-... 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125984
smt88 9y ago
I hate and fear lots of technologies. When you struggle against a bad technology decision at a company for weeks, months, or years, hatred/fear is justifiable. Luckily, I don't care what "companies all over the globe" are doing. I'm paid to know the difference between cargo-cult decisions and good decisions. Interesting to see Mongo's (in)famous marketing in action again, though![1] I'll stick to equally-or-more popular products that succeeded on technical merits instead of marketing (e.g. Postgres). 1. https://www.nemil.com/mongo/3.html https://www.nemil.com/mongo/3.html

jaydestro 9y ago

mongodb employee here https://www.mongodb.com/who-uses-mongodb https://www.mongodb.com/who-uses-mongodb I don't see a ton of hatred and fear from Cisco, Facebook and Google. I dig what they've done, especially facebook, with MongoDB. Reconsider 2012 opinions and read about 2017's MongoDB.

smt88 9y ago
Instead of insulting me with the implication that I don't keep up with major technologies in my industry, you probably would've been more convincing if you'd told me what's changed since 2012. However, I do keep up with Mongo, and I do know what's changed. It still doesn't make me want to use it. Relational data is better for most applications, Redis is better for many others, and I can have both documents and relational data in the same database with PG[1]. It seems like many other people with Mongo experience feel the same way[2]. 1. http://www.aptuz.com/blog/is-postgres-nosql-database-better-than-mongodb/ http://www.aptuz.com/blog/is-postgres-nosql-database-better-... 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125984

smt88 9y ago

I hate and fear lots of technologies. When you struggle against a bad technology decision at a company for weeks, months, or years, hatred/fear is justifiable. Luckily, I don't care what "companies all over the globe" are doing. I'm paid to know the difference between cargo-cult decisions and good decisions. Interesting to see Mongo's (in)famous marketing in action again, though![1] I'll stick to equally-or-more popular products that succeeded on technical merits instead of marketing (e.g. Postgres). 1. https://www.nemil.com/mongo/3.html https://www.nemil.com/mongo/3.html