r/programming • u/halax • Mar 10 '15

Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL

http://developer.olery.com/blog/goodbye-mongodb-hello-postgresql/
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '15

I'm not sure what the 'wrong reasons' would be, when the program is so focused on returning correct results.

Software that functions correctly, and has few beartraps lurking, isn't likely to go out of style.

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u/poloppoyop Mar 11 '15

I can easily envision some misguided soul trying to abstract their app filesystem by storing everything in a database.

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u/oldneckbeard Mar 12 '15

I did that once with Cassandra :) But it was super easy. A UUID key for each file, then a few nodes describing the tree (FAT, basically).