u/amaxenin r/Database • Recommends
Since we have some NoSQL bigots on the site, here's a classic......
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- Recommended by 3 people: 1 on Lobsters and 2 in engineering communities.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2019 to 2025.
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Beginner. No background in the topic needed.
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A satirical animated parody of the NoSQL versus relational database debate, mocking the early hype around MongoDB's scalability claims.
Q&A discussion discussing the merits of No SQL and relational databases.Why it's here
3 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as a classic software engineering parody that perfectly captures the early hype and reality disconnect of MongoDB and NoSQL.
u/revrenlovein r/dotnet • Mentions
On “.Net WebAPI projects: Why MongoDB?”
Mongo DB is Web Scale
u/RirinDesuyoin r/dotnet • Mentions
On “Why Microsoft itself doesn't use Blazor?”
Ah yes the "web scale" meme that's as old as the web. I bet they also use MongoDB / NoSQL since it's web scale lol.
u/gajus0in r/PostgreSQL • Mentions
…fine(ish), splitting databases is not. By adding a second database:
- You lose the ability to perform ACID transactions.
- You lose referential integrity.
- You lose PITR.
These are major downsides. If someone suggested you to use a database for your new project that does not support even one of these, you would (hopefully) dismiss their advice (link to this video
To make things worse, it adds a ton of complexity:
- deployment & permission management is twice as complicated
- keeping database schemas in sync is a challenge
- comparing database states is time consuming
A non-technical problem that emerges over time:
- different databases / schemas adopt different conventions because they are seen…
u/Dadiot_1987in r/dotnet • Mentions
On “How popular is using MongoDB in the .NET community?”
Classic! link to this video
u/blackpawedin r/dotnet • Mentions
On “Entity Framework”
>MongoDB is web scale
Oh man, that takes me back, had to go look up that vid again, still classic.
link to this video
u/YouBecamein r/dotnet • Mentions
On “MongoDB Provider for Entity Framework Core Now Generally Available”
For anyone missing the reference
u/GoAwayStupidAIin r/haskell • Mentions
On “Announcing the Haskell MongoDB Queue Library”
but... it's web scale!
u/ejbrennanin r/dotnet • Mentions
On “When should a NoSQL solution be used? Ever?”
And oldie but a goodie:
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u/roofgramin r/dotnet • Mentions
On “Sql EF to no-SQL”
Saying you need MongoDB because of scalability is literally a trope - link to this video
If you don’t know what to do, use the thing the rest of your company is familiar with. Don’t use your company as a Guinea pig to test some new technology unless you have an actual need. Not an imagined one.
I’ve been burned to many times by inheriting someone’s project with a needlessly unique architecture because them ‘trying something new’ was with more than my time maintaining their crap shoot of a code base.
If you have ‘document’ like data then by all means store it in a JSON column, SQL supports that.
u/krulosin r/compsci • Mentions
On “The Pressures of Success in Undergraduate Computer Science Programs”
That's some nice code! Actually readable unlike a the vast majority of JS out there. The bunny rabbit comment reminds me of the mongodb is webscale video lol
link to this video
u/vplattin r/dotnet • Mentions
On “Blazor is NOT good enough”
I mean, it should be fine as long as it's used with Mongo, because Mongo is webscale.
u/sixtyhurtzin r/dotnet • Mentions
On “One C# class, a web page and a native GPU screen: the UI framework I've been building (0.2 preview)”
This kind of response reminds me of this: [video
Like, you're just throwing out buzzwords my guy.
afandianon Hacker News • Mentions
On “OpenNote – an open web-based alternative to Microsoft OneNote and EverNote”
I don't like MySQL either. But it's probably the perfect choice. Or perhaps you think something webscale1 is required? 1 link to this video