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No viable alternative? Why not one of the many other document db's, such as CouchDB? Genuinely curious what MongoDB does better in general than all the other do
by bigDinosaur 4y ago
No viable alternative? Why not one of the many other document db's, such as CouchDB? Genuinely curious what MongoDB does better in general than all the other document oriented databases.
- bombcar 4y agoBecause MongoDB is web scale. (Honest answer: a company can continue way longer than you think just supporting legacy customers - need Lotus Notes? https://www.hcltechsw.com/notes https://www.hcltechsw.com/notes )
- PheonixPharts 4y ago> what MongoDB does better Hosting and infrastructure? Sure for your weekend project there are plenty of alternatives. At enterprise level you aren't paying for just the base product you're paying to have someone else worry about all the other stuff that keeps it up and running. Yes you can find Couchdb hosting services but it's very nice to have the company that builds the product also control the hosting. I've worked at a company that was fairly large MongoDB customers. Even though MongoDB was a major part of our overall product there was never a second of considering hosting our own solution, and there was likewise never a time I remember Mongo being responsible for a major outage or other infrastructure issue. That's worth quite a lot of money to not have to worry about an essential part of your own internal product infra.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoI see, so it's more the managed infrastructure than the actual DB itself?