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We use their atlas offering. It’s a bit pricey but we are very happy with it. It’s got a bunch of stuff integrated - vectors, json (obviously), search and chart

We use their atlas offering. It’s a bit pricey but we are very happy with it. It’s got a bunch of stuff integrated - vectors, json (obviously), search and charting along with excellent support for drivers and very nice out of the box monitoring. Now I could possible spend a bunch of time and do the same thing with open source dbs - but why? I have a small team and stuff to deliver. Atlas allows me to do it fast.

cpursley 2y ago
There’s a ton of hosted Postgres providers that do all of that and more and are just as simple to use. Neon.tech is really easy to set up and if you need more of a baas (firebase alternative), Supabase. Plus, no vendor lock in. I’ve moved vendors several times, most recently AWS RDS to Neon and it was nearly seamless. Was originally on Heroku Postgres going way back. Try getting off Atlas…
- orochimaaru 2y ago
  Ha - easier said than done in an enterprise, especially when nothing is wrong. Maybe the $$, but at some point the effort involved with supply chain and reengineering dwarfs any “technical” benefit. This is why startups like to get into a single supply chain contract with an enterprise - it’s extremely hard to get it setup, but once done very easy to reuse the template.
skatanski 2y ago
Similar here, there are gotchas though. Some versions ago they've changed their query optimization engine - some of our "slow aggregations" become "unresponsive aggregations" because suboptimal indexes were suddenly used. We had to use hints to force proper indexing. Their columnar db offering is quite bad - I'd say if there's need for analytical functionality, its better to go with a different db. Oplog changes format - and although its expected, it still hurts me every now and then when I need to check something. Similarly at some point they've changed how nested arrays are updated in changestream, which has broken our auditing (its not recommended to use changestream for auditing, we still did ;) ). We've started using NVM instances for some of our more heavily used clusters. Well it turned out recovery of an NVM cluster is much much slower than a standard cluster. But all in all I really like mongodb, if there are no relations - its a good choice. Its also good for prototyping.

cpursley 2y ago

There’s a ton of hosted Postgres providers that do all of that and more and are just as simple to use. Neon.tech is really easy to set up and if you need more of a baas (firebase alternative), Supabase. Plus, no vendor lock in. I’ve moved vendors several times, most recently AWS RDS to Neon and it was nearly seamless. Was originally on Heroku Postgres going way back. Try getting off Atlas…

orochimaaru 2y ago
Ha - easier said than done in an enterprise, especially when nothing is wrong. Maybe the $$, but at some point the effort involved with supply chain and reengineering dwarfs any “technical” benefit. This is why startups like to get into a single supply chain contract with an enterprise - it’s extremely hard to get it setup, but once done very easy to reuse the template.

skatanski 2y ago

Similar here, there are gotchas though. Some versions ago they've changed their query optimization engine - some of our "slow aggregations" become "unresponsive aggregations" because suboptimal indexes were suddenly used. We had to use hints to force proper indexing. Their columnar db offering is quite bad - I'd say if there's need for analytical functionality, its better to go with a different db. Oplog changes format - and although its expected, it still hurts me every now and then when I need to check something. Similarly at some point they've changed how nested arrays are updated in changestream, which has broken our auditing (its not recommended to use changestream for auditing, we still did ;) ). We've started using NVM instances for some of our more heavily used clusters. Well it turned out recovery of an NVM cluster is much much slower than a standard cluster. But all in all I really like mongodb, if there are no relations - its a good choice. Its also good for prototyping.