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MongoDB Criticism

The cluster centers on debates about MongoDB's suitability as a database, questioning its real-world use cases, reliability, and superiority over alternatives like Postgres, with frequent memes about it being 'webscale'.

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pkstn • Jul 19, 2021 • View on HN

Writer clearly haven't heard about MongoDB :P

Axsuul • Nov 11, 2013 • View on HN

Can anyone explain what are some actual real-life good uses for MongoDB?

exabrial • Jan 10, 2019 • View on HN

It's mongodb though... It's well documented at this point you shouldn't be using mongo on anything that matters

pytyper2 • Jan 16, 2019 • View on HN

Good, Mongo is rarely the right database.

SamReidHughes • Feb 6, 2017 • View on HN

You never heard of anybody using MongoDB?

psychometry • Apr 10, 2020 • View on HN

We're still talking about MongoDB? Why?

autokad • Oct 20, 2017 • View on HN

mongodb is not the only nosql db :) I use hive/hbase

milkey_mouse • Apr 17, 2016 • View on HN

You forgot MongoDB. MongoDB is webscale.

johnpython • Sep 9, 2017 • View on HN

MongoDB is the wrong choice 99.9% of the time. Just use Postgres.

wmichelin • Nov 14, 2016 • View on HN

Can you share your rationale for choosing MongoDB?