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MongoDB is ideal for Startups
May 18, 2017

MongoDB is ideal for Startups

Eddy Wong | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MongoDB

I am using MongoDB as a bread and butter database and main storage for our data objects.

In a previous opportunity, I used MongoDB to model graph constructs. Even though, MongoDB is not a graph db, I used its document oriented storage to store the adjacency list of a graph. Afterwards, I took advantage of its geo related features and indexing capabilities on date.
  • Model objects in JSON
  • Easy to get started, install and get going
  • Runs on my laptop (Mac) and can be easily scaled to Ubuntu servers
  • Ideal for startups, because it allows schema evolution
  • It's "write concern" was a flaw at the beginning
  • Authentication came later
  • It's aggregation language is not consistent, and sometimes difficult to get working
  • Increase developer productivity
  • No schema migrations
  • No need for "schema planning" or design
  • Couchbase Server
- Mongo had a query language
- Mongo could be run easily on my laptop
Mongo has become the defacto NoSQL db and my bread and butter db. It's so easy to get started on, that I would recommend it to any colleague.
Mongo is well suited for startups because it is well suited for iterative development. You don't have to have a "schema" decided apriori. You can just dump your data and start querying it right away. Mongo is not very well suited transactional operations like purchases or checkouts.