Maybe they fell back on Zope! Haven't heard that one in a while ;)

= nate

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Chris Tweney <[email protected]>wrote:

> (This thread originated on oae-core, but is really meant for oae-dev.)
>
> If Mongo really has a global write lock [1] then it's got much the same
> problem that caused us to migrate away from Jackrabbit...
>
> Snip:
>
> "Global write lock - MongoDB (as of the current version at the time of
> writing: 2.0), has a process-wide write lock. Conceptually this makes no
> sense. A write on collection X blocks a write on collection Y, despite
> MongoDB having no concept of transactions or join semantics. We reached
> practical limitations of MongoDB when pushing a mere 200 updates per
> second to a single server. At this point, all other operations including
> reads are blocked because of the write lock. When reaching out to 10gen
> for assistance, they recommended we look into sharding, since that is
> their general scaling solution."
>
> [1] http://blog.engineering.kiip.me/post/20988881092/a-year-with-mongodb
>
> -chris
>
> On 6/6/12 8:46 AM, Zach A. Thomas wrote:
> > This link may have circulated already, but it's relevant here:
> > http://blog.engineering.kiip.me/post/20988881092/a-year-with-mongodb
> >
> > There's nothing like cold reality to blunt a fellow's enthusiasm!
> >
> > Zach
> > On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Ray Davis wrote:
> >
> >> I wonder what his team switched to? PostgreSQL is the fallback I've seen
> >> most often.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Ray
> >>
> >> On 6/6/12 8:29 AM, Lance Speelmon wrote:
> >>> FYI - might be a useful data point…
> >>>
> >>> http://www.zopyx.com/blog/goodbye-mongodb
> >>>
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