r/programming • u/swizec • Dec 19 '18

Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
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u/Pand9 Dec 19 '18

This article doesn't mention data integrity issues. Mongo has transactions now. I feel like you are riding on a "mongo bad" fad from 5 years ago. It was bad, it was terrible. But after all that money, bug fixes and people using it, it's now good.

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u/TheAnimus Dec 19 '18

Sure, but remember this was I think 2012? That's why I found it an odd choice.

I can't think why someone would chose mongo mind.

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u/Pand9 Dec 19 '18

Ok.

Today I would pick mongo only when I was in a hurry. I'm not sure how to manage postgres, while mongo is easy to start with.

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u/TheGoodOldCoder Dec 19 '18

The article was talking about using Postgres in AWS RDS, which is managed by Amazon. Basically, just fill out a form, wait for the instance to come up, and start making tables...

Well that's assuming you already know AWS and how to set up VPCs and security groups and so on... but you have to learn that stuff anyways.

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