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by romanovcode 3601 days ago
Because Mongo is wrongly marketed as "all-in-one" database.

Instead it should be marketed as "good database for dynamic data that requires complex filtering, also we have very good drivers for many languages" because that's the only thing it's good at.
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devishard 3601 days ago
But there are other databases that are good at that, too, and don't drop your data. RethinkDB? RavenDB? Depending on the type of data you're using either of those could be an option, and won't just drop your data randomly.
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romanovcode 3601 days ago
Yeah, drivers are not as good tho. That also counts, am I wrong?
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devishard 3601 days ago
I've had nothing but positive experience with RethinkDB drivers. RavenDB has good drivers for some languages, but admittedly not every language is well-supported.

Still, I can't see a situation where I would choose a non-working datastore over a working datastore.

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osullivj 3600 days ago
I'm having an excellent experience coding against RethinkDB in Tornado Python. A shift in programming style from conventional callbacks to use Tornado's gen.coroutine is necessary. Having made that shift it's become very easy to use coroutines in the server to stream RethinkDB's JSON result sets up to an AngularJS front end. End to end JSON makes for zero impedance and rapid development. I'm constantly rejigging my schema, indexes and joins as I go so it feels like RDBMS based dev in a lot of ways.
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hiphipjorge 3601 days ago
The RethinkDB drivers are phenomenal in 4 to 5 languages.
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eldavido 3600 days ago
Yeah. I remember thinking a few years ago that it tries to be three totally different products at the same time: a straight NoSQL k-v store like S3, a SQL-like OLTP relational thing ("rows are sorta like documents, right") and an offline analytics store with the map/reduce functionality.

It's like they wanted to be all three but couldn't quite commit to one, and the end result is the proverbial "tankicopter" that's neither as strong as a tank, nor as maneuverable as a helicopter.

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elmigranto 3601 days ago
I think it also might be okay as storage for dervied data, but then again, why not shove it into `uuid-jsonb` Postgres table, perhaps on the second server.
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