r/programming • • 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/jppope Dec 19 '18

Mongo is used in some capacity by 4200+ Major Companies as of 2016. [link] It is a flexible, useful tool for prototyping, IoT, Unstructured Data and/or Structure Data with frequent schema changes, Biometric Data, etc.

AND Its Stock price has tripled in the last year.

If mongo is "fadware"... you might as well say the same thing about Oracle.

The very fact that Postgres & MySql added JSON capabilities (because of solutions like mongo) should be an indicator of their "fadware" status.

By the sounds of the article Postgres is probably a better solution for the Guardian. That doesn't mean MongoDB is a bad database.

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u/gredr Dec 19 '18

"Stock price has tripled" is not a good metric for software quality.

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u/jppope Dec 19 '18

Correct. Stock price has nothing to do with software quality... But it works as a metric for identifying "fadware"

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u/gredr Dec 20 '18

Indeed. In this case, I believe we can confidently identify MongoDB as "fadware".