I gotta have more MongoDB!
Overall Satisfaction with MongoDB
We use MongoDB to power our new e-commerce platform. The first feature that we have enabled has been the product catalog search. Thanks to 3.6 change streams we are able to react when a user searches and there are no results. We can even send a text message through Stitch/Twilio integration to send a personal message to the user.
Pros
- MongoDB offers Stitch, which can replace a lot of backend code through its API. It can also integrate your application with a lot of services such as Twilio.
- Change Streams allow you to create responsive applications.
- The BI Connector has been redesigned and it has become a lot faster to set up.
Cons
- Stitch is still in Beta. A few features are still not available. I expect those features to be available in 2018 sometime. Example features missing are Change Streams and $text.
- The ease with which applications can transform data in far greater than before. Developer productivity and happiness has gone up.
- The integration of applications with third party services has become super easy.
- SQL Server and Couchbase Data Platform
SQL server is ancient, and Couchbase doesn't let you accomplish anything special--it's too basic, especially from a security standpoint.
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