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by gasping 4170 days ago
What? When would it ever be OK to lose parts of an invoice. Mongo apologists baffle me sometimes. To anyone considering MongoDB, don't be fooled, you probably want to stick with an RDBMS.
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When the parts are cheap compared to the cost of storing them in a real database.

I even know someone who stores invoice items in memcached. Whenever memchached evicts something that hasn't made it onwards to real storage, they lose the ability to invoice the right customer for an ad impression.

What are you talking about? We run a 800+ GB mongo cluster and have never lost data.