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by clarkenheim 3443 days ago
Reading more into this point in the post than i maybe should but "Take advantage of our expertise operating MySQL." sounds like they have more engineers familiar and comfortable working with MySQL than they are with Redis.
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antirez 3443 days ago
That's a valid reason indeed. Also technological consolidation, that is, if I can do everything with a single DB / language / ... I always tend to use a single thing.
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virmundi 3443 days ago
Watch how far you generalize that view. I realize that "I can do everything with a single...language" can make "everything" mean anything. I had a coworker that helped a middle eastern country with security software. He went full Javascript on it: Node, Mongo, etc. It worked. JS did everything. While he didn't go into details, afterwards he thought it was a bad idea. A great learning experience on when to define "everything" properly as well as what is outside of it.
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antirez 3443 days ago
Yes I totally agree that like most "rules on software" there is the need to be judicious enough to know when to follow the rule is not a good idea... However I more often see the contrary, of adding a multitude of systems together without very strong reasons.
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ohstopitu 3443 days ago
just wondering why Mongo is considered a part of "JS". Is it because of the MEAN stack?
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virmundi 3443 days ago
Part of it is JSON as the storage format. Another part is its Node driver. The whole API fit it well. It understood async programming. It felt JS-like. The input and output were JSON instances. Finally, yea, from what I know of him "web scale" did play part in the decision. Oh those heady days.
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secoif 3442 days ago
For data that's mostly to do with the the API provided by the particular mongodb driver, than mongodb itself. Mongo stores and transmits BSON, not JSON. Most mongo drivers expose an API that serialises your data to BSON for writes and wraps the BSON data with a JSON-like interface for reads.
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sandGorgon 3442 days ago
postgresql has the jsonb column type which is just as powerful as mongo
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nine_k 3443 days ago
Possibly because of JSON as the storage format.
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koolba 3443 days ago
Because of JSON and "web scale".
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