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Literally any other. I'm unaware of any alternative so unreliable. There was a post on LinkedIn last year, "MongoDB: The Frankenstein Monster of NoSQL Database
by qohen 9y ago
Literally any other. I'm unaware of any alternative so unreliable.
There was a post on LinkedIn last year, "MongoDB: The Frankenstein Monster of NoSQL Databases"[0], by the CTO of SlamData, which I think produces an analytics package for MongoDB or the like.
The piece is an interesting dive into why MongoDB is what it is (at least as of March 2016) -- and given his connection to MongoDB and its employees -- being a partner of theirs -- it's quite eye-opening (and I'm surprised with almost 200 comments in this thread that no one posted it previously):
Much like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein monster, MongoDB’s data access layer is sewn together from ragged pieces that don’t fit together. Pieces that were never designed to fit together.
The result, depending on your point of view, is either an Enterprise-grade NoSQL database destined to supplant Oracle, or an unholy abomination of nature, deserving of an angry mob bearing torches and pitchforks.
Let me dissect this creature so you can decide for yourself.
[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-frankenstein-monster-nosql-databases-john-de-goes/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-frankenstein-monster-...
- qohen 9y agoAnother post[0] by the same author complements the one I posted above -- this is more recent and is focused more on MongoDB's moves as a company, relating what he saw at MongoDB World 2017): You might expect a database company to announce improved scalability, reliability, or performance. Or perhaps announce some of the countless features that users have been requesting for years, which are collecting dust in MongoDB's ever-growing issue tracker. These are sane, logical expectations for a database company, so you'd be forgiven for being shocked at MongoDB's announcements that the company is investing massively into every product category except database technology. Yet, to those who know MongoDB's troubled history, these announcements come as no surprise. In fact, I even predicted the launch of Stitch just over a year ago, at the last MongoDB World. MongoDB didn't start as a database company, it's never acted like a database company, and in my opinion, it doesn't really have the DNA of a database company. If his assessment in this next snippet is correct, one wonders about those who invested in this IPO: MongoDB has no ecosystem. There are no analytics tools for MongoDB (except SlamData [N.B. this is the author's company] ), no backup software, no recovery software, no data integration software, no query optimization software, no data management software, nothing. Zilch. There's just MongoDB. In hindsight, this is an inevitable consequence of a company without database DNA trying to build and monetize a database. MongoDB couldn't figure out how to build an Oracle-sized empire on a database—partially, I'd argue, because they couldn't figure out how to build a database—yet they have to hit their sales quotas. If you can't sell the database at scale, you end up trying to build and sell an ecosystem around the database. Slowly, bit by bit, MongoDB went after their early partners, trying to put them all out of business to drive a few million here and there. The result is a "database company" that sells everything under the sun, including database management tools, data exploration tools, cloud hosting tools, cloud hosting services, and soon, BaaS (Bubble makes a return!) and BI software. Everything except, you know, a database. [0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-world-2017-lonely-story-versus-john-de-goes/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_post_details%3BxyFI7dznRbylU%2BWEyF1nPQ%3D%3D https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-world-2017-lonely-sto...
- fanbouey 9y agoMongoDB has the BI Connector https://www.mongodb.com/download-center#bi-connector https://www.mongodb.com/download-center#bi-connector