Item: MongoDB
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MongoDB

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using MongoDB for a new pilot project. We want to use it in the future for more production projects. At the moment the main goal is to manage a transactional database for gaming using MongoDB and its main features like replica set and sharding and clusters and so on. It is the perfect database to do that because of its document store engine, that uses json documents and stored bson files. It's great for his schemaless structure and so on.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Schemaless
Sharding
Replica sets
Indexing
Performance
JSON

Cons

Of course there is no IDE, like SQL Server
Need some extra work to administer and set up
No sql, of course

Return on Investment

Better operation management
Less initial cost
Less hardware needs

Alternatives Considered

Redis

MongoDB is document oriented, and fits our goals best.

Other Software Used

Microsoft SQL Server, Redis

Likelihood to Renew

Powerful and great combining with replica sets.

Likelihood to Recommend

MongoDB is well suited for document store, linear scalability and schema flexibility. The rich query and indexing functionality are great. No sql support, so it's not so appropriate for a "relational" software, which needs something like - for example- the support of a relational classic db like Sql Server, my sql and so on. A strong consistency model and open source does the rest.