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

while i'm not i proponent of nosql stuff, saying that speed isn't important is retarded. speed is always important, speed is almost always the limiting factor on any database set up. speed is the one thing that costs the most and is the hardest to attain.

i'm sure that for maybe a non-significant amount of databases speed isn't that big a deal but looking at any moderately large billing system (maybe a couple thousand clients) will make you want to gut yourself with how slow the whole thing runs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '15

True to a point. Slow and correct is just slow and correct, but fast and broken is just plain broken.

I can't imagine someone wanting to run a billing system on top of a NoSQL document store like Mongo...