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MongoDB 1.4 released
MongoDB is "a
scalable, high-performance, open source, dynamic-schema, document-oriented
database." The 1.4
release has been announced; it features a number of performance
improvements, better replication support, geospatial search support, a
number of query language improvements, and more.
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MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 26, 2010 18:46 UTC (Fri) by Quazatron (guest, #4368) [Link]
The quick start interactive tutorial at http://try.mongodb.org/ is a very nice way to give you a feel of what MongoDB can do.
This is a very interesting approach to databases, rather than yet another SQL implementation.
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 27, 2010 2:53 UTC (Sat) by emk (guest, #1128) [Link]
We've been using MongoDB as the backend for an experimental system,
and it's pretty interesting. I like the schema-free JSON storage (with indexed queries!), and it's generally pleasant to work with.
The data integrity model is a bit unusual: The current version of MongoDB
Unfortunately, some of the object-mapper libraries for MongoDB are still
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Apr 3, 2010 2:49 UTC (Sat) by dmag (subscriber, #17775) [Link]
> it's generally pleasant to work with.
Agreeed. It feels like MySQL without the bother of creating tables and columns. Just add data.
> The data integrity model is a bit unusual: [..]
If you want high uptimes, you must consider both the "time to failure" (an error happens) and "time to recovery" (you recover from the error). If you rely on disk-based error recovery, then you will have to wait for the server to reboot, the drive to fsck, *and* the database repair (often slow and less well tested.) It's much faster to "recover" by switching in your slave instead.
Think of it as "RAID at the server level", because RAID at the disk level only solves one problem (disk failure) instead of many problems (power supply failure, ethernet card failure, etc).
> I'm not sure how I feel about that.
I love it. If you're into Cloud Computing (EC2), there are bonus benefits:
> Unfortunately, some of the object-mapper libraries for MongoDB are
Agreed. There's a lot of room for improvement.
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 28, 2010 20:11 UTC (Sun) by robinst (subscriber, #61173) [Link]
Someone should tell them that "Mongo" is a derogatory word in German and not a very good
name. It could as well be named "IdiotDB".
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 29, 2010 5:22 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Yeah, and Linus should rename Git for the exact same reason.
/sarcasm
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 29, 2010 8:15 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
It has the same slang usage in english, although it is perhaps out of fashion. I don't think it's a big deal.
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 29, 2010 13:29 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
Well, I do. It should be renamed.
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 29, 2010 19:26 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Why is it a big deal? Should the Gimp be renamed?
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 30, 2010 9:54 UTC (Tue) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
It's just the way i feel about it and yes, Gimp should be renamed, as should git. I mean what's so difficult about choosing a name that is not an insult? Those names are just completely unprofessional.
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 30, 2010 12:36 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
I find the word 'unprofessional' to be offensive (I'm being serious BTW; the word has no purpose other than as an insult when no substantial argument can be made).
Should we rename everything so nobody could possibly be offended? Surely the list of possible names which cannot offend anyone is in fact the null set?
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 30, 2010 20:00 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
The word has another, related, meaning, which thankfully does not apply
here: "I'm your boss so you should agree with me even though I have no actual arguments."
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 30, 2010 13:25 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Git may be a (minor) insult, but how is it offensive? (it's not a rude word)
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 30, 2010 17:32 UTC (Tue) by khc (subscriber, #45209) [Link]
are you volunteering to come up with a list of words in every language that could possibly be deemed offensive? What about words that sound like other offensive words?
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Apr 1, 2010 12:45 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]
I suppose they could follow Commodore's lead and give the German-localized version a different name. (VC-20 vs. VIC-20)
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 29, 2010 20:45 UTC (Mon) by efexis (guest, #26355) [Link]
You are free to fork the project under a new name.
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Mar 29, 2010 15:59 UTC (Mon) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link]
But it is not so in English.
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Apr 1, 2010 12:41 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] To me, the first thing that comes to mind when I see "Mongo" is Flash Gordon, and I suspect this would apply to a lot of native speakers of English.
MongoDB 1.4 released Posted Apr 1, 2010 13:32 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
Or 'candygram': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUxR965b4LU
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