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> Yes they hit these points hard, but only from marketing point of view MongoDB serviced one of my projects for 5 years without a single hitch. It did everythi
by Jare 9y ago
> Yes they hit these points hard, but only from marketing point of view
MongoDB serviced one of my projects for 5 years without a single hitch. It did everything I wanted it to do, it did it well, it did it exactly as advertised (no more, no less), and it did it right when I needed it. It never stopped improving during those years, massively in some aspects. The company behind it only grew stronger during those years, and along with it, so did my confidence that my project wouldn't need to undergo re-engineering further down the line.
Seriously, as a professional software developer, what more do you want.
- takeda 9y agoBased on my experience, your use case was simple enough that any database would do just fine.
- Jare 9y agoOur use case was not simple, but MongoDB made it simple to implement. We used pretty much every feature of MongoDB. Any other database could have been coerced to do what we needed, of course, but with greatly varying degrees of extra complexity or overhead.
- orf 9y agoPlease elaborate on how your use case was not simple, and how your data was not relational in the slightest.
- Drdrdrq 9y agoMy experience too, 6 years. Never been a fanboy, but don't understand the hate either. MongoDB never surprised me, the tradeoffs were known in advance (at least the ones that mattered to me).