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comment by flopper
flopper  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB

These "mongo is bad" articles always, always fail to acknowledge that (1) schemaless is a thing people want and need, and (2) nothing else comes anywhere close to Mongo is terms of ease of use for storing big, weird-shaped JSON documents. The kind of data that Mongo is good at makes relational databases melt their disk arrays. Yeah, it's not as fast as a normal relational database, so what. That's not the purpose.





j4d3  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can imagine weird asymmetrical data like that, but I've never encountered it at a scale plain JSON files couldn't handle.

flopper  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, I've got terabytes of it! Maybe I'm the one Mongo use case, I dunno.

j4d3  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Freebase seems like a use case. But not a common one.