Episode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale

Q&A discussion discussing the merits of No SQL and relational databases.

Category:

Comedy

[supergenius1994]

"you are going to blow some project to hell, because you get a woody playing with software like it is a sex doll"

unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; > finger ; mount ; fsck ; > more ; yes ; umount ; sleep,

well it seems Linux is a sex doll

[user696969]

love how this is the first result for mongodb search, lol

[jxhensley]

@MethodWive it's what MongoDB is. MongoDB has what web sites crave. It has scalability.

[Dieterbe]

@MethodWive I think it's usually used to describe web applications that need to be able to handle a lot of traffic (anywhere between 1 user and everybody on the internet)

[MethodWive]

wtf does web scale mean?

[gigitrix]

People still mad in the comments, a year and a half later. Lol.

[jdmmilanoreddc2]

"pipe your output to /dev/null" lol

[drachimera]

As funny as this is, it has no basis in reality. It is so obvious that this guy has never done PETA-scale work. NoSQL databases are very different, some do favor consistency and ACID. Others favor a tune-able parameter for eventual consistency. Most banks should use Oracle, PERIOD. NoSQL is about other types of usage patterns. True, few techies will ever build a web app that actually needs a NoSQL backend. Take it from one that has, when you need it, you really need it. Funny that he s

[windigo77]

This is stupid. You ad'homed mongodb with a character you created, and it ended up being nothing but a bunch of insults. You are just as much worshiping your relational databases as he is worshiping his nosql, it's a tool, so can we stop arguing about if the wrench is better than the pliers?

[MWGrossmann]

@avadyne I'm gonna go with "Any airline ticket site" and for bonus points I'll add "any US state that has sales tax".

[SyntheticEarth]

We are the 99.9%.

[avadyne]

@BagarozziBoi And what are you talking about displaying different prices than what will be charged? in what application of your do you tell the customer that they will be charge $X.XX but actually charge them a different amount? that doesn't even sound legal...