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While I don't support a blanket statements along the line of "every app should be using MongoDB," it is equally invalid to say that "anything that deals with mo
by mathias_10gen 16y ago
While I don't support a blanket statements along the line of "every app should be using MongoDB," it is equally invalid to say that "anything that deals with money" has no use for MongoDB. If you look at http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Production+Deployments http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Production+Deployments you will see a few financial and ecommerce sites. I can tell you that there are even more financial firms not on that list in various stages of production. Even if your entire app can't be written using MongoDB, it is still worth investigating if the time savings of using it for a portion outweigh the costs of using an additional data store. But that is more of a business question than a technical one.
- ergo98 16y ago>you will see a few financial and ecommerce sites Could you provide some examples? Scanning the list I see a couple that have a very periphery relation to financials, but the actual applications have very little financial applicability (and the implementations are trivial). Though the person you responded to didn't actually say that `"anything that deals with money" has no use for MongoDB"', so you're setting up a strawman regardless.
- jasonjei 16y agoThanks, ergo98. I definitely think MongoDB can be used in money applications. But there's almost always some ACID requirement when you're dealing with accounting, e.g, crediting payment or billing fees. I would use something that could handle transactional ACID processing in combination with MongoDB depending on the application.
- mathias_10gen 16y agoIn that case, I apologize. I have seen people using the same argument to claim that MongoDB is unsuitable for use in ecommerce and assumed you were doing the same.
- weixiyen 16y ago> so you're setting up a strawman I find that ironic.
- ergo98 16y agoThat's nice.