[krmmalik]

Exactly the discussion i had today with a colleague. Mongoose makes it incredibly easy to get started and iterate rapidly.

I have yet to experience MongoDB in a large scale production environment and the common pitfalls often cited, but let's face it - If you're Start-Up has scalability issues, it's prob a nice problem to have.

Based on my personal observations, i suspect the lack of adoption is because founders are thinking about scale prematurely - which is rather Anti Lean Startup and Anti-Pg anyway.

[krmmalik]

Sounds like the information you've been given is in the wrong context.

I've had MongoDb running on my laptop in less than 5 mins and used it locally for multiple projects without issues.

The kind of problems you mention probably occur on very heavy use but i've never witnessed it myself.

For small scale stuff and getting up and running quickly, i've not used anything as convenient as Mongo

Note: I'm on Windows.

Also consider MongoHQ - They have a really good Start-Up package.

[krmmalik]

please ignore. I always manage to click the wrong button to reply on the mobile app

[stesch]

Is MongoDB the right DB for every size of startup? What about the people who just want to try different projects on 1 (one!) single server?

What I've read about MongoDB, it wants to use all the memory it gets. So it's only usable if it is running on its own server. (And in the beginning of MongoDB it had to be 2 servers if you didn't want to lose data.)

Is this a false information again? Am I falling for anti MongoDB FUD again?