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How about implementing MongoDB API on top of the PostgreSQL? Then sell it companies which started with MongoDB, but run into some scalability/reliability issues

How about implementing MongoDB API on top of the PostgreSQL? Then sell it companies which started with MongoDB, but run into some scalability/reliability issues.

Oculus 12y ago
As sad as it may be, with the use of schema-enforcing ORMs and the popularity of MongoDB, this will be a viable business in the near future.
threeseed 12y ago
Pretty sure it's easier to add PostgreSQL as a storage engine: http://engineering.objectrocket.com/2014/07/18/experimental-pluggable-storage-engines-in-mongodb/ http://engineering.objectrocket.com/2014/07/18/experimental-... Than to fix up the sharding and clustering in PostgreSQL. It's been an issue for quite a few years now and still not mainlined. I think most PostgreSQL users are simply scaling them vertically.
yangyang 12y ago
Someone's already done a proof of concept of this, see https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike
- yangyang 12y ago
  This is the thing I was actually thinking of when I posted the above. This is a background worker (runs within PostgreSQL) speaking the mongo wire protocol: https://github.com/umitanuki/mongres https://github.com/umitanuki/mongres Again, very basic PoC.
jbuzbee 12y ago
I wonder how far one could go with this. I'm currently playing around with Meteor which requires MongoDB. I wonder if a MongoDB API on top of PostresSQL would be a path to start bringing in relational DB capabilities to Meteor? But perhaps Meteor's use of Mongo is too deeply intertwined and goes deeper than an application-level API.
- thawkins 12y ago
  Metor contains an implementation of mongodb written in js to support transparent use of data access in eith client or server.
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gaius 12y ago
IBM already does this with DB2 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/05/ibm_db2_mongodb/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/05/ibm_db2_mongodb/
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How about implementing MongoDB API on top of the PostgreSQL? Then sell it companies which started with MongoDB, but run into some scalability/reliability issues.

Oculus 12y ago

As sad as it may be, with the use of schema-enforcing ORMs and the popularity of MongoDB, this will be a viable business in the near future.

threeseed 12y ago

Pretty sure it's easier to add PostgreSQL as a storage engine: http://engineering.objectrocket.com/2014/07/18/experimental-pluggable-storage-engines-in-mongodb/ http://engineering.objectrocket.com/2014/07/18/experimental-... Than to fix up the sharding and clustering in PostgreSQL. It's been an issue for quite a few years now and still not mainlined. I think most PostgreSQL users are simply scaling them vertically.

yangyang 12y ago

Someone's already done a proof of concept of this, see https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike

yangyang 12y ago
This is the thing I was actually thinking of when I posted the above. This is a background worker (runs within PostgreSQL) speaking the mongo wire protocol: https://github.com/umitanuki/mongres https://github.com/umitanuki/mongres Again, very basic PoC.

jbuzbee 12y ago

I wonder how far one could go with this. I'm currently playing around with Meteor which requires MongoDB. I wonder if a MongoDB API on top of PostresSQL would be a path to start bringing in relational DB capabilities to Meteor? But perhaps Meteor's use of Mongo is too deeply intertwined and goes deeper than an application-level API.

thawkins 12y ago
Metor contains an implementation of mongodb written in js to support transparent use of data access in eith client or server.

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gaius 12y ago

IBM already does this with DB2 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/05/ibm_db2_mongodb/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/05/ibm_db2_mongodb/

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