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You really don't remember the "web scale" memes about Mongo? It was always primarily about "performance".
by virgilp 8y ago
You really don't remember the "web scale" memes about Mongo? It was always primarily about "performance".
- acdha 8y agoI don't remember seeing that predicated as a low-level I/O savings — it was always things about being easy to cluster or avoiding the performance overheads of ACID. The pitch was usually “it's easier and you don't need a skilled DBA”.
- adrianhel 8y agoWhat I heard was "You can practically scale indefinitely". Which I guess is more true of NoSQL. As is I/O savings. But it's not something I've ever heard it advertised for.
- rhizome 8y agoPerformance was an imposed callsign of Mongo, the reason everybody started using it was the declarative schema stuff and so the dev didn't have to know how to start a terminal, which was a not-insignificant hurdle. It doesn't have significant performance differences over other simple KVs. "Faster" was primarily a measurement of learning curve.