drmirror

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by drmirror 8y ago
There may be a misunderstanding here about sharding vs replication. Having the same data distributed across a few data centers for data locality is done using replication. Sharding means that data is partitioned horizontally to achieve high
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by drmirror 8y ago
To answer one of the questions in the post: I do believe that MongoDB's transactions will only be used in some applications, and only in few but critical places within those applications. That is because with a document database, data
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by drmirror 9y ago
And I would still claim that this is easier in MongoDB because several versions of the phone number field(s) can happily coexist in the same collection. Those variants are usually trivial to understand for someone who even just looks at the
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by drmirror 9y ago
The short answer is: just do it. You can add any field to any document at any time. That's the beauty of JSON documents without schema constraints. Then of course you need to let your application understand that. But it turns out it&#x
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by drmirror 9y ago
About the first use case, well it turns out MongoDB just introduced multi-document transactions today.
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by drmirror 9y ago
I am one of the team of MongoDB engineers working with Epic on this issue, and I can assure you that the situation is under control and we have everything in place to scale this application to much higher numbers. However, we're not pu
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by drmirror 9y ago
I beg to differ. (Disclosure: I work for MongoDB.) Using JSON as your data model, rather than relational tables, lets you build different applications that don't need multi-document transactions as often, because the data is already to
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by drmirror 12y ago
WiredTiger shows a lot of potential, but it would be irresponsible to make such a radically different engine the default for everyone, even for new databases, without giving it some time to mature.
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by drmirror 12y ago
Six minutes sounds about right to me, if the food is not complex. Try using a stopwatch next time you're in a restaurant. The service industry is pulling some pretty amazing stuff, all the time.