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by dkhenry 5044 days ago
According to the README they say preformance improvements with Mongo. The downside was having to port all the new features over to it.

Personally I have used it to speed up development. It allows very fast iterations early on and integrates much more nicely with most languages then a SQL based solution. Also its a lot faster the MySQL.
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jmikola 5043 days ago
10gen sponsors development of a Drupal module, EntityFieldQuery[1], which aims to improve support for non-SQL databases. Although I'm unfamiliar with Drupal project layouts, I didn't find a reference to the module in the GitHub project, so I don't believe they were using it. That said, there are still challenges to making MongoDB play nicely with Drupal 7, but 10gen is aiming for better integration in version 8 (through the same sponsorship).

1. http://drupal.org/project/efq_views

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intoit 5044 days ago
Yeah, I think this was a case of the developers just wanting to try the latest thing without really understanding the impact or tradeoffs.
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