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That's all true, but they were giving 90% of their users exactly what they wanted: "We value feature-set and expressiveness much more than scalability at our d
by jbooth 13y ago
That's all true, but they were giving 90% of their users exactly what they wanted:
"We value feature-set and expressiveness much more than scalability at our data size, but we want to feel like we're big data too so say some of that stuff"
And that's their brilliance, they listened to what people said they wanted and then gave them what they really wanted.
- arohner 13y agoThen where did the "Mongo is web scale", and sharding and performance come from? The fact remains that Mongo just doesn't scale, and 10gen was never honest about that.
- gaius 13y agoNo, what they thought they wanted. They promised a world without DBAs, but the "DBA" is really, whoever gets called at 3am in the morning with the site goes down. If you don't know who the DBA is, it's you. They promised a world without schemas, but you always have a schema, the only question is whether you know what it is and the tools help you validate it or not. They promised massive scalability, but really just pushed scalability problems out into other layers of the stack. I could go on and on...