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> Has it become a legacy product, or are there still good reasons for using it in a new project in 2025? We're in the process of migrating our legacy stuff to

> Has it become a legacy product, or are there still good reasons for using it in a new project in 2025? We're in the process of migrating our legacy stuff to mongodb right now. If you want a high-availability database solution that "just works" and is open then you don't have many other options. (Postgress and Mysql don't have automatic failover and recovery.)

guappa 1y ago
mongodb is not open
- otabdeveloper4 1y ago
  I disagree with that. The Server Side Public License is more open than the AGPL. In the same sense that the GPL is more open than the MIT license; more viral requirements for openness are generally a good thing. I don't want Amazon and the ilk deploying hosted Mongodb clusters.
  - guappa 1y ago
    People have the most varied creeds and faiths. However the facts are that it doesn't respect freedom 0.
    - otabdeveloper4 1y ago
      Freedom of what? Freedom of business for cloud providers? I don't give a shit about that. Open source for me is a hedge against risks. (Especially political and/or legal ones.) Mongodb's current license resolves that issue for me perfectly.
- usoBordal 1y ago
  Agreed. It seems like something really bad is going on. I hope the Mongodb security team will handle it ASAP.
mxey 1y ago
PostgreSQL does not have built-in clustering but Patroni does it automatically. MySQL Group Replication isn‘t automatic in all cases, like starting after all nodes failed, and it has some limitations, but it is built-in. Not saying that MongoDB ReplicaSet is bad, has been working very well for us AFAICT.
- otabdeveloper4 1y ago
  If you rely on Postgres and/or Mysql replication then you'll need a DBA on call. Lots of manual work involved in babysitting them when stuff goes south. Mongodb is entirely automatic, you just delete bad servers and reprovision them automatically and everything "just works" with no interruption.

guappa 1y ago

mongodb is not open

otabdeveloper4 1y ago
I disagree with that. The Server Side Public License is more open than the AGPL. In the same sense that the GPL is more open than the MIT license; more viral requirements for openness are generally a good thing. I don't want Amazon and the ilk deploying hosted Mongodb clusters.
- guappa 1y ago
  People have the most varied creeds and faiths. However the facts are that it doesn't respect freedom 0.
  - otabdeveloper4 1y ago
    Freedom of what? Freedom of business for cloud providers? I don't give a shit about that. Open source for me is a hedge against risks. (Especially political and/or legal ones.) Mongodb's current license resolves that issue for me perfectly.
usoBordal 1y ago
Agreed. It seems like something really bad is going on. I hope the Mongodb security team will handle it ASAP.

mxey 1y ago

PostgreSQL does not have built-in clustering but Patroni does it automatically. MySQL Group Replication isn‘t automatic in all cases, like starting after all nodes failed, and it has some limitations, but it is built-in. Not saying that MongoDB ReplicaSet is bad, has been working very well for us AFAICT.

otabdeveloper4 1y ago
If you rely on Postgres and/or Mysql replication then you'll need a DBA on call. Lots of manual work involved in babysitting them when stuff goes south. Mongodb is entirely automatic, you just delete bad servers and reprovision them automatically and everything "just works" with no interruption.