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> What makes mongo mongo is its distibruted nature

Since when? Mongo was popular because it gave the false perception it was insanely fast until people found out it was only fast if you didn't care about your data, and the moment you ensure write happened it ended up being slower than an RDB....

[jokethrowaway]

Since forever, sharding, distributing postgres / mysql was not easy. There were a few proprietary extensions. Nowadays it's more accessible.

This was typical crap you had to say to pass fang style interview "oh of course I'd use mongo because this use case doesn't have relations and because it's easy to scale", while you know postgres will give you way less problems and allow you to make charts and analytics in 30m when finance comes around.

I made the mistake of picking mongo for my own startup, because of propaganda coming from interviewing materials and I regretted it for the entire duration of the company.

[threeseed]

> Nowadays it's more accessible

Distributing PostgreSQL still requires proprietary extensions.

With the most popular being Citus which is owned by Microsoft and so questions should definitely remain about how long they support that instead of pushing users to Azure.

People like to bash MongoDB but at least they have a built-in, supported and usable HA/Clustering solution. It's ridiculous to not have this in 2024.

[foobarkey]

Trying to use MongoDB by default for new projects because of the built in HA, dumped Postgres because the HA story is so bad on bare metal (alright if you are ok burning money on RDS or simiar).

Current preference: 1. HA MongoDB 2. HA MariaDB (Galera) or MySQL Cluster 3. Postgres Rube Goldberg Machine HA with Patroni 4. No HA Postgres