mathias_10gen

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by mathias_10gen 16y ago
Actually the name was very much accidental. Read this post by the guy who coined the term: http://blog.sym-link.com/2009/10/30/nosql_whats_in_a_name.ht... "it was one of 3 or 4 suggestions that I spouted off in the span of like 45 seconds
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by mathias_10gen 16y ago
A) Just because something is 'traditionally' done doesn't mean its mandatory. Databases 'traditionally' spoke SQL but I don't see you dinging anyone for breaking that tradition. You've used the Appeal to Tradition fallacy (look it up on wik
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by mathias_10gen 16y ago
No, it is a suggested configuration, not the suggested one. And recommending three nodes is not that uncommon for distributed systems, because you cant have a quorum with only two nodes. Some users are more concerned with handling 10s o
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by mathias_10gen 16y ago
Actually, that will be a recommended config for replica sets. Most of our slides already show 3 replicas per set. Also, most people have backups so its not really "running naked". See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Backups for a few
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by mathias_10gen 16y ago
This was at a talk on the state of mongodb's sharding features which are still a work in progress. The demo was a preview of what's to come rather than simple bragging.
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by mathias_10gen 16y ago
They are both on ec2 IIRC so i think it is effectively local.
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by mathias_10gen 17y ago
The C++ API should work well as it is what we use in the database. The only issues is that it depends on boost, and any binary copy of the library depends on a specific version of boost. You may want to try compiling libmongoclient for your