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If you had a chance to make the decision again, what would you choose instead of Mongo?
by earless1 13y ago
If you had a chance to make the decision again, what would you choose instead of Mongo?
- cmer 13y agoMySQL or PostgreSQL. Exactly what we did at my new startup. We actually did something that's quite unpopular here but it was the right choice for us. We started with Postgres and eventually ran in all sorts of performance problems after hitting a certain scale. We realized that nobody in the company knew anything about PG and that good consultants were extremely hard to find. On the flip side, everybody had good to excellent knowledge of MySQL and we happen to have a friend who's one of the best MySQL guys in the world. Pretty handy. We switched from PostgreSQL to MySQL and couldn't be happier. I think the lesson for us was: go with what you know and master, and with what's easy to fix, rather than what people on hackernews tell you to use.
- mbesto 13y agoCurious - what made you decide MongoDB over PG/MySQL in the first place? Was it merely gut (as indicated below) or was it more of a "people say this is good, it fits our use case, so let's try it out" > We switched from PostgreSQL to MySQL and couldn't be happier. I think the lesson for us was: go with what you know and master, and with what's easy to fix, rather than what people on hackernews tell you to use. Thank you for this :)
- cmer 13y agoWe had a giant table that constantly needed schema changes. With older versions of MySQL, adding a column meant many hours of downtime. And our business required 100% uptime. It wasn't a good fit. The promise of no schema sounded awesome. MySQL 5.6 no longer has this limitation. Actually, pretty much everything we didn't like about MySQL has been fixed in 5.6. We kind of decided to give it another chance and we've been happy.