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Interesting. MongoDB actually came to mind while I was reading the other comment here: > No one uses DynamoDB alone: they bolt it onto Postgres after realizing
by throwdbaaway 5y ago
Interesting. MongoDB actually came to mind while I was reading the other comment here:
> No one uses DynamoDB alone: they bolt it onto Postgres after realizing they have availability or scale needs beyond what a relational database can do, then they bolt on Elasticsearch to enable querying, and then they bolt on Redis to make the disjointed backend feel fast. And I'm just talking operational use cases; ignoring analytics here.
Perhaps MongoDB is prime for a comeback?
- leetrout 5y agoNot snark: did MongoDB ever go away? I've seen it used in many places over the years. Today I would choose JSON in Postgres before I would just jump to Monogo but it certainly serves a purpose for many shops and it is still widely used AFAIK. I _really_ miss RethinkDB.
- jd_mongodb 5y agoWhat do you miss about RethinkDB?
- leetrout 5y agoThe table model with joins that mostly "just worked" and the sweet web ui that came with it by default. Hat tip for compass, very nice tool I was just losing last week. We use Atlas and it "just works" so no comment on administering mongo vs rethink haha.
- pier25 5y agoIn my circles Mongo has always been considered a bad database. If Rick's vouching for it maybe it's time to give it a try. It must be pretty mature by now.
- leetrout 5y agoIt had some operational quirks 10 years ago (allocating giant chunks of space was more of an issue that dataloss) and I've not used it directly in that many years. We lost some data during an OOM process kill but it was just twitter firehose data so not a huge deal. Lots of good info in the response in this SO post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10560834/to-what-extent-are-lost-data-criticisms-still-valid-of-mongodb https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10560834/to-what-extent-...