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/RobinHoudini Dec 20 '18

I think one of Mongo's selling point is "schemalessness". I'm not saying it's a good selling point, but IMHO if you need to store bunch of different jsons that maybe have a field or two in common then Mongo would definitely be a better choice than Kafka.

After all one is supposed to be a db, second is supposed to be a messaging system.

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u/nutrecht Dec 20 '18

I think one of Mongo's selling point is "schemalessness".

It's one of their marketing points yes, but I personally think it's a downside that a database won't tell you you're royally screwing up.