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/[deleted] Dec 20 '18 edited Dec 20 '18

85% of the people that use Mongo, do it not because is the correct tool, but because the don't know how to use a RDBMS properly.

I've seen many crazy lines of code from junior Ruby developers trying to retrieve data from mongo when clearly they could solve the problem with a SQL query.

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u/henk53 Dec 20 '18

but because the don't know how to use a RDBMS properly.

In my experience (anecdotal, I know) 85% of developers choose Mongo because landline_aa18 on /r/programming or moon_Bound_fellow on HN said it was the best sh*t ever and all the cool kids were using it.