A Year with MongoDB
From the beginning I've understood mongodb to be built with it's approach for scaling, performance, redundancy and backup to be horizontal scaling. They recently added journaling for single server durability, but before that replication was how you made sure you data was safe.<p>It seems to me when I see complaints about mongodb it's because people don't want to horizontally scale it and instead believe vertical scaling should be more available.<p>Just seems to me people don't like how mongodb is built, but if used as intended I think mongodb performs as advertised. In most cases I don't think it's the tool, rather the one using it.