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Really interesting. As someone who's done some consulting in e-commerce I've always dreamt of an open source engine based on MongoDB. Magento and Prestashop ar
by julien_c 14y ago
Really interesting. As someone who's done some consulting in e-commerce I've always dreamt of an open source engine based on MongoDB.
Magento and Prestashop are perfect examples of "relational databases gone wrong"... 2,000 tables? Right!
- ericingram 14y agoI started building my own first e-commerce business around the time Magento hit beta, and the EAV (Entity Attribute Value) model is the part that killed it for me. I had ideas for my site that didn't work out of the box, so I knew I had to understand the code to customize it. Instead we built a platform from scratch to fit the unique features of that site, and it worked. The business did $400k in revenue the first year. Now a few years later, I can accomplish the same thing with the same basic skills (HTML, CSS, easy to understand data storage), but I don't have to start from scratch. I wanted this to exist so that I would have fun building e-commerce sites again.