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I had to rip out a comletely schemaless mongodb and replace it with a sql DB. The data was completely relational, and developing without a schema was a pita. I
by throwawaygh 6y ago
I had to rip out a comletely schemaless mongodb and replace it with a sql DB. The data was completely relational, and developing without a schema was a pita.
I asked why mongodb was used in the first place. As far as I could tell, the answer was one resume driven dev.
If a document store made sense for our data then we would’ve made mongodb work. It was less “we got burned” and more “why were we using mongo in the first place?”
- daneel_w 6y agoThis was a bit of a hidden point with my comment. A poor choice of tool for the job is a completely different problem than the tool being poor.