One Year with MongoDB

the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Good: Schema-less

Bad: 2GB Database Limit on 32bit

Machine

Ugly: Migrations

Ugly: Dates

Good: Query Language

Ugly: Management Tools and Interfaces

Good: Ruby ORM Support

Bad: Replication Suport at the Driver

Level

Ugly: (non)Transaction Support

Ugly: Using a Document Store as a Relational

Database

Ugly: Long Field Names

Bad: Background Indexing

Good: ReplicationIt’s Easy™

Ugly: Replica Sets Need to be in Threes

Good: Very Fast to Setup

Bad: No Authentication by

Default

It’s been a great year, and our team is looking for many more years of MongoDB goodness :)

(actually we just want like the pizza)

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