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by sergei 5580 days ago
The problem with Mongo's concurrency approach is that when you introduce writes to the equation (which take out an exclusive lock on the database), the system becomes unusable.

Here's a link to some of the benchmarking work I did. Ignoring the comparison to Clustrix, you can clearly see readers getting starved out when a writer does io.

http://sergeitsar.blogspot.com/2011/01/mongodb-vs-clustrix-c...