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IIRC, until fairly recently (well after Mongo had launched), "master/slave replication for availability" in Postgres was a bitch to set up, requiring 3rd-party
by defen 13y ago
IIRC, until fairly recently (well after Mongo had launched), "master/slave replication for availability" in Postgres was a bitch to set up, requiring 3rd-party tools + manual failover if the master died. It was a lot easier to get going with Mongo, which is really what matters if you're a 2 person startup just trying to validate an idea.
- mattdeboard 13y agoStrongly disagree here. MongoDB (10gen, at the time) had absolutely insane, irresponsible defaults set in all its drivers until, like, 1.8 (very recent). This is anathema to "we're just trying to validate an idea" especially when "our idea took off and now 6 months later we actually do need to scale." They've fixed it like I said but that whole "we're just using it to validate an idea" thing is a total con. "Nothing so permanent like a temporary [solution]."