I’m the developer of the mongodb driver for node.js. I’m using mongodb for my own projects and have been very happy with the performance of mongodb. Mongodb driver for node.js (Shameless plug) Feel free to ask any questions about the driver at Google group for the mongodb driver or here at Stackoverflow Have fun with … Read more
There have been some great answers to this already, but I wanted to add some more recent CouchDB features to the mix of options for working with the original situation described by viatropos. The key point at which to split up documents is where there might be conflicts (as mentioned earlier). You should never keep … Read more
Here’s a quote from a recent blog post from Dare Obasanjo. SQL databases are like automatic transmission and NoSQL databases are like manual transmission. Once you switch to NoSQL, you become responsible for a lot of work that the system takes care of automatically in a relational database system. Similar to what happens when you … Read more
Just promise yourself that you will never try to map a relational data model to a NoSQL database like MongoDB or CouchDB… This is the most common mistake developers make when evaluating emerging tech. That approach is analogous to taking a car and trying to use it to pull your cart down the road like … Read more
See following links CouchDB Vs MongoDB MongoDB or CouchDB – fit for production? DB-Engines – Comparison CouchDB vs. MongoDB Update: I found great comparison of NoSQL databases. MongoDB (3.2) Written in: C++ Main point: JSON document store License: AGPL (Drivers: Apache) Protocol: Custom, binary (BSON) Master/slave replication (auto failover with replica sets) Sharding built-in Queries … Read more
Relational databases enforces ACID. So, you will have schema based transaction oriented data stores. It’s proven and suitable for 99% of the real world applications. You can practically do anything with relational databases. But, there are limitations on speed and scaling when it comes to massive high availability data stores. For example, Google and Amazon … Read more
Probably you shouldn’t 🙂 The second most obvious answer is you should use it if your data isn’t relational. This usually manifests itself in having no easy way to describe your data as a set of columns. A good example is a database where you actually store paper documents, e.g. by scanning office mail. The … Read more
I think there are some essential differences between CouchDB and Couchbase Server that need to be pointed out. I will not write about the advantages of switching from CouchDB to the Couchbase Server because those are described pretty much everywhere (see The Future of CouchDB by Damien Katz or Couchbase vs. Apache CouchDB by Couchbase). … Read more
I’m the CTO of 10gen (developers of MongoDB) so I’m a bit biased, but I also manage a few sites that are using MongoDB in production. businessinsider has been using mongo in production for over a year now. They are using it for everything from users and blog posts, to every image on the site. … Read more
Of C, A & P (Consistency, Availability & Partition tolerance) which 2 are more important to you? Quick reference, the Visual Guide To NoSQL Systems MongodB : Consistency and Partition Tolerance CouchDB : Availability and Partition Tolerance A blog post, Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Membase vs Neo4j … Read more