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I think it's kind of missing the gist of the criticism that mongodb advertised itself as so much faster than traditional DBs and yet it turns out its not reliab
by willvarfar 15y ago
I think it's kind of missing the gist of the criticism that mongodb advertised itself as so much faster than traditional DBs and yet it turns out its not reliable.
And for all the painful stories of foursquare and others having meltdowns, it seems to be really unreliable.
- christkv 15y agofoursquare seems to be doing fine http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203006 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203006
- willvarfar 15y agowhich is strange since its hard to tally this: http://blog.foursquare.com/2010/10/05/so-that-was-a-bummer/ http://blog.foursquare.com/2010/10/05/so-that-was-a-bummer/ with what Harry says today about it never being serious and never losing money: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203223 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203223 Or maybe he doesn't count the opportunity cost? Or reputation for that matter.
- shuzchen 15y agojust thought I'd link the reply provided in the other thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203887 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203887 Basically said the blame for that wasn't on Mongo.