MongoDB

“Mongo was easy to start and iterate on, but SQL still won for many reasons.”

“MongoDB is a natural choice if you are working with denormalized deeply hierarchical data structure like JSON.”

“I wouldnt recommend doing MongoDB for EVERYTHING, but when you're using it for very specific things, you dont have to throw away everything you're already familiar with”

“the only open-source database that supports multi-master high-availability out of the box”

“AI makes it much less painful to move off of legacy and/or overpriced software.”

“Their pitch is an easier to get started with database, which longer term gives you problems and higher costs.”

“I can't imagine the future is bright for MongoDB as AI makes it much less painful to move off of legacy and/or overpriced software.”

“MongoDB's biggest weakness was its default settings, which made it insecure and very vulnerable to data consistency failures.”

“a mix of stuff that's warranted, stuff that's a bit more nuanced than internet arguments might make it seem like”

“once mongo rewrote their engine - it's performant, scales & easy to run”

“no additional setup/software needed and all drivers natively support secondary/primary writes/reads and topological changes”

“Every single project that I worked on where MongoDB was used, also had MongoDB as the single largest constraint and operations time sink.”

“I completely agree that using index intersections in a real workload could be quite dangerous”

“being able to install both mongodb 3.8 and mongodb 5.0, ideally at the same time”

“No one knew, for instance, how to lower the MongoDB resource usage, despite the fact that the clustered VMware install is using a very fast SSD storage solution”

“I've used mongo with replication and automative failover for a decade in production with no downtime, no data lost.”

“The easiest I’ve done is in MongoDB replication, sharding, failover, and all that is super easy.”

“I loved MongoDB's query language but grew too frustrated with the actual runtime”

“Mongo, for all of the deficiencies that it's had over the years, can scale writes in a much more simple way than Postgres.”

“the login system worked by giving the user a cookie with the mongodb document id”

“Keeping on MongoDB is the boring option for me even if it's not the classic example.”

“Similar to MongoDB, where you tell the primary instance to use a replica set”

“after 10 years, 1m+ users and hundreds of enterprise customers everything was just fine”

“Maintaining a codebase with mongodb db is already hard enough considering 99% of the time you need a relational db.”

“We've been using MongoDB in production since 2013, so it was a natural choice since we already know a lot more about it”

“I've found that schema-less databases reduce the class of errors agents struggle with most”

“all these hipsters startups (MongoDB, Redis, etc) all ended up enshittifying their open source products”

“Of course it supports partial updates. It just requires you to know the difference between a document and a field, and model your data appropriately.”

“For scenarios where I have one 'thing' that's not very relational, it works well.”

“People that know what they are doing have been using MongoDB for reliable horizontally-scalable document storage”

“Why did it take them 4 days between publishing a CVE for the vulnerability (Dec 19th) and posting a public patch (Dec 23rd)?”

“no solution offers both low operational complexity and high availability that can be comparable to MongoDB”

“there are workloads out there, where you will get burnt badly if you pick anything other than a traditional RDBMS with ACID”

“schema-less: we don't have to think about DDL statements at any point.”

“I love MongoDB's query language (JS/Node.js developer so the syntax fits my mental model well)”

“Running MongoDB in a replica set is really easy and much easier than running postgres or MySQL in an HA setup.”

“The only thing I really don't care for is managing Mongo... as a developer, using it is pretty joyous”

“As much as I like MongoDB as a developer, the last thing I ever want to do is manage a deployment again.”

“our savings of going from Atlas to MongoDB Community on EC2 several years ago were big”

“Because that's the only database there, and nosql schemaless solutions are faster to get started”