Ask HN: Should I migrate my MongoDB to a more reliable DB before launch?

[daphinz]

I have a few months before I launch an app I've been working on for the past year. I started with mongo because in the beginning I did not plan to have that much sensitive data and it was ~80% read. Now that I've come close to my MVP I've included data that needs to be more secure and stable. The majority of my backend is a basic CRUD architecture with heavy reads so migration shouldn't take me more than a week. Will I thank myself later if I switch now to something like sqlite or PostgreSQL? I've read some pretty bad horror stories on here regarding MongoDB as of late and I'd like to save myself a headache.

[vskarine]

Try Tokumx, it's drop-in replacement for mongodb but much much more reliable (https://www.percona.com/software/mongo-database/percona-toku...)

[smt88]

I'd never heard of this. Thanks so much! I've really wanted to try to set up my own Parse instance[1], but it's suicidal to use Mongo. Hopefully I can make it work with only a few changes.

1. https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server

[dudul]

Based on how you describe it, why is it even a question?

[smt88]

Yes.