It sounds like he wanted a SQL database all along, so there's not much insight i...

thegoleffect · on June 22, 2010

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Use+Cases

The author's project requirements list transaction support. Meanwhile, MongoDB explicitly mentions it is not suited for transactional systems.

I agree, he needed an SQL db from the beginning.

smharris65 · on June 22, 2010

Really? Then why does he say: "In Mongo’s defense- I really like it, and hope to use it in the future when it becomes stable."

mattculbreth · on June 22, 2010

Well if one of his primary reasons for going back was that he doesn't like schema-less databases, then it's a fair thing to say that Mongo was never the right choice.

Of course he may have needed to do this project to discover that.

captaincrunch · on June 22, 2010

I'd bite the bullet on schema-less, if it were stable.