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Ask HN: If not mongo then what?

4 pointsby octixover 11 years ago
Hi,<p>What other open source product can offer following?<p>- document oriented - makes easier to abstract it as a relation when needed(yes, I know no joins... buy a helmet)<p>- dynamic fields - a more agile pace of development (good bye database migrations, patches)<p>- indexed arrays - &quot;tags&quot; and &quot;attributes&quot; functionality<p>- geospacing<p>- store binary files (GridFS) - replicate, backup easier binary files<p>- aggregation framework - analytics<p>- simple and eazy replication - easier to scale ???<p>- ttl - handy for caching<p>Just saying...

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tobylaneover 11 years ago
My understanding is that the scale goes from Postgres (edgy but worth it) to MariaDB (I didn&#x27;t pay attention while you listed your requirements, here&#x27;s something that&#x27;ll suit you), to MSSQL (let me stop you, I heard you need support). Everything else is built on top of the database. This scale doesn&#x27;t fit all the technologies, so it doesn&#x27;t need to fit every use.
davidy123over 11 years ago
ElasticSearch does all the above, has excellent support and a lot of momentum. I find it a joy to work with. Only issue may be that commits take a few moments. Solr is its sibling and has soft commits.
davismwflover 11 years ago
So just a point I made awhile ago. Not saying which is best: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6794327" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6794327</a>