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Does anyone use Mongo anymore? Edit: Honest to god question. I was surprised when I saw the headline, because I've never seen anyone use mongo in production, a
by felipellrocha 9y ago
Does anyone use Mongo anymore?
Edit: Honest to god question. I was surprised when I saw the headline, because I've never seen anyone use mongo in production, and never ran into any articles talking about using mongo.
- jasonmaydie 9y agoare you saying it has become ubiquitous?
- dajohnson89 9y agoyes?
- stusmall 9y agoOh, hackernews
- 52804375092485 9y agoI can't think of a compelling reason to use Mongo over Cassandra except "we already use it and don't want to change".
- enjo 9y agoIt's a fair bit easier to setup than Cassandra and a document store is simply easier for most people to reason about than column-families. For something like your typical rails app, Mongo has some real nice properties. It makes it sticky. You start out with Mongo because you can just drop data in and off you go. You keep using it because Mongo, despite all of its drawbacks, is really plenty good enough for more than 80% of the stuff on the web.
- emilsedgh 9y agoWhat I'm mostly interested to see is the rate of new projects using mongo. Do they have growth at a rate that justifies their valuation? If that's the case, is HN living in its own bubble? Because if you read HN you'd think that nobody will use mongodb for a new project.
- Yliaho 9y agoWhat should one use then?
- wcarron 9y agoAt my (admittedly tiny) place of work, we use it in production for literally everything alongside redis. It gets the job done. Not my favorite. I'd rather be using PostgreSQL since our data is 100% relational. But though some wicked twist of fate, I'm the only one who can use SQL dbs, and the Sr. devs like mongodb.