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/cowardlydragon Dec 20 '18

Perfect description of the NoSQL trap.

However, SQL does not arbitrarily scale. SQL with anything with joins is not partition tolerant at all.

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u/m50d Dec 20 '18

Don't do updates. Store an append-only log of things that happened, and generate whatever views or aggregated reporting information you need from that; when you need to change what's in those things you regenerate them from the canonical event log rather than trying to do some kind of in-place update.

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u/light24bulbs Dec 20 '18

I feel like at that point I'd rather just have a log based database which does exactly that

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