Articles filed in category 'MongoDB'

Ben Coe argues that the NoSQL versus SQL debate is not absolute and shares his pragmatic experience using MongoDB for Attachments.me. He traces underlying trade-offs—schemaless, denormalized modeling, and developer-oriented design versus traditional SQL robustness and mature tooling—and demonstrates how MongoDB can fit real-world applications, including modeling a music store, executing complex queries, and scaling concerns. Coe cautions against overreliance on sharding,... emphasizes indexing and workload characterization, and concludes that MongoDB is powerful for certain big-data and rapid-prototyping needs, but not a universal solution.See More