without explicitly defending this decision*, i'd like to point out that mongodb was never intended to be deployed as a single node living on a single machine.

without explicitly defending this decision*, i'd like to point out that mongodb was never intended to be deployed as a single node living on a single machine. it was designed with concurrency in mind, the concurrency you're looking for comes in the form of sharding and replica sets though. edit: meh, got bored, decided to defend it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3412283 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3412283