Shutterfly also has moved to mongo in production.
On Jul 13, 2011 1:56 PM, "Symeon Breen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am a bit of a mongo DB fanboy myself, I think regarding performance,
> because of its autosharding any large scale application will definitely
beat
> u2. Mongo db powers many mainstream enterprise solutions, and high profile
> websites, - bit.ly comes to mind, so it certainly has a pedigree as well.
>
> However i am also a u2 fanboy for many many reasons.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Sobers
> Sent: 13 July 2011 16:52
> To: U2 Users List
> Subject: Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article
>
> Wait, why can't you add a new column to a table in MySQL or SQL Server?
>
> Putting aside the RDMS arguments, (*apart from familiarity*) why wouldn't
> you use something like MongoDB or CouchDB, which are accessible from more
> programming environments, over U2? They offer the same schema flexibility
> and disk space benefits you cite with U2 and so much more.
>
> MongoDB, for instance, has built-in mechanisms for auto-sharding,
> replication, REST API, full-text index, and I can go on and on. And it's
> FREE! :-)
>
> I can't speak to performance, but I'd love to benchmark MongoDB versus U2.
> Maybe I will.
>
> I know I sound like a MongoDB fanboy, but I think it's a straight-up U2
> killer. I challenge anyone to find an area where U2 beats it.
>
> -Rob
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Jeff Schasny <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It scales well. I benchmarked 20K concurrent users for a wholesale
>> distribution application on a single (HP Superdome) server and that was
10
>> years ago.
>>
>> The database structure can be painlessly modified which makes it much
>> easier for new applications development. Need a new field, slap it on the
>> end of the table and go on with your day, try that with your favorite
>> relational environment.
>>
>> Not so important today as it once was when disk was more expensive,but it
>> uses significantly less disk space than a relational database storing the
>> equivalent data. This also contributes to needing significantly less
> overall
>> computing power to support X number of users for a given application due
> to
>> more efficient IO, i.e. less disk reads required.
>>
>> You can use SQL, but you don't have to. This, above all, is the MY most
>> significant reason to use U2.
>>
>> Holt, Jake wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure being cheaper than Oracle can really be touted as an
>>> advantage, there aren't many things out there that are more expensive
> than
>>> oracle =D. And all of those things you just mentioned are also true of
> many
>>> FREE databases, so again, why pick U2?
>>>
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>>> On Behalf Of Israel, John R.
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:31 AM
>>> To: 'U2 Users List'
>>> Subject: Re: [U2] Interesting Article
>>>
>>> You may have answered your own question. Why do YOU like it?
>>>
>>> It is easy to develop, quick to code, fairly robust query language, and
a
>>> lot cheaper than the BIG databases (Oracle, DB2, etc).
>>>
>>>
>>> John Israel
>>> Senior Programmer/Analyst
>>> Dayton Superior Corporation
>>> 1125 Byers Road
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>>>
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>>> On Behalf Of Holt, Jake
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:26 AM
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>>> Subject: Re: [U2] Interesting Article
>>>
>>> I have come to like U2 over the past few years but an honest question:
>>>
>>> Why would anyone ever pick U2 beyond familiarity and personal
preference?
>>> Can anyone think of any situation that another (and in a lot of cases a
>>> *far* cheaper) database isn't a better fit?
>>>
>>> Maybe if U2 had it's own niche like MySQL has with web hosting, there
>>> would be a market Rocket could focus on ?
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