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by beardbandit 2212 days ago
Man, people really hate Mongo.

We use it for a very specific use case and its been perfect for us when we need raw speed over everything. Data loss is tolerable.

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It seems like you have the only good use case for it pegged down. I've worked at multiple companies that really, really didn't understand that putting something into the DB comes with some probability that it'll never come out. The arguments were "but it's a dataBASE, it stores data. They'd never sell this as a product if it LOST data; then it wouldn't be a database..."