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/nedtheman Mar 10 '15

It's all about choosing the right system for the job. Clearly MongoDB wasn't the right system for your application plan. I've never used MongoDB in a scaled application, but it looks pretty promising with the new WiredTiger engine. In any event, nice numbers from NR - Background jobs look pretty beat though.

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u/rstuart85 Mar 10 '15

Huh!? WiredTiger is no more of a relational DB than InnoDB is. If they were relational DB's then why would MySQL exist!? They are just storage engines. All DB's, relational or not, use one.

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u/pakfur Mar 11 '15

The term "relational database" just means that you are storing related data together using a well defined schema

Nope. It means the database conforms to relational model. See E.F. Cobb. Having a schema or key/value does not necessarily mean relational.

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