[Systers-dev] Database Schema for Message Storing

[Jennifer Redman]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Yian Shang <yian.shang at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just set up and played with MongoDB for a bit and I added the indexes
> we'd
> probably need on the wiki:
> http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/database-schema.
>
>
MongoDB is INCREDIBLY unstable and in no way ready for production.  There is
is this slight problem of complete and totally unexpected data-loss.

http://www.mikealrogers.com/2010/07/mongodb-performance-durability/

If you want to play with a NoSQL db look at CouchDB -- but I highly advise
against using MongoDB for anything.

If you want to switch to a non-relational db server then you need to do some
analysis first on why that is a correct decision and then evaluate all the
tools.  Stability and extensibility is extremely important.  How many people
running Mailman are going to be willing to run MongoDB?  Or CouchDB for that
matter?

Jen