Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by gaius 2799 days ago
You use their code for free and call them "idiotic or malevolent" when they make it harder for you to use their code for free.

MongoDB is little more than mmap() attached to a socket. They would be nowhere without piggybacking on a million lines of other people’s free code.

1 comments

MongoDB uses WiredTiger storage engine currently. mmap storage engine is all but deprecated.