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Unfortunately, many of those who used mongodb regretted the decision Mongodb is a good db but it is not good for many use cases that people are using them for.
by karlick88 12y ago
Unfortunately, many of those who used mongodb regretted the decision
Mongodb is a good db but it is not good for many use cases that people are using them for. There are a lot of companies that realized the mistake and are actively migrating off it. I know we are planning a "Off-Mongo party" with another company once we both manage to migrate off
- threeseed 12y agoYou are either being disingenuous or you're ignorant. Many of the companies that switched off MongoDB were growing and ended up moving up to databases like Cassandra. MongoDB is a great database from when you're starting to when you're mid sized. Cassandra destroys PostgreSQL in scalability but we don't say PostgreSQL is a crap database because of it.
- kalleboo 12y agoWhat makes Cassandra unsuitable for starting to mid sized where MongoDB is better?
- lucian1900 12y agoI think you're being too kind. Many of us who used MongoDB have concluded that there is no task at which it is in any way better than all other existing alternatives.
- seabrookmx 12y agoThat's a pretty bold statement. Care to enlighten?
- seabrookmx 12y agoI agree that document-oriented databases don't deserve a lot of the hype they get (use the right tool for the job and all that), but there is definitely some use cases where they make sense. At my company most of our systems are SQL Server powered, but one of the newer systems that stores large blobs of metadata for products is using Mongo, and it is working quite well.