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MongoDB, NoSQL, Web Scale (Changelog Interviews #51)

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Steve and Wynn sat down with Eliot Horowitz from 10gen to talk about MongoDB, the NoSQL landscape, and the fun of building at Web Scale.

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Featuring:

  • Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
  • Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • Eliot Horowitz CTO and Co-Founder of 10gen
  • Dwight Merriman CEO & Co-Founder at 10gen
  • NoSQL is a loose term for Key Value Stores, Graph Databases, and Document Databases
  • MongoDB still has a large roadmap ahead
  • MongoDB was first featured on The Changelog over a year ago
  • Single server durability tops the list of new additions in 1.8
  • Replica sets are an elaboration on the existing master/slave replication, adding automatic failover and automatic recovery of member nodes
  • Shutterfly and Foursquare boast some of the largest MongoDB implemenation
  • MongoDB’s sharding enables horizontal scaling across multiple nodes.
  • Mongo vs. Riak (and other Dynamo inspired stores)
  • Full vs. eventual consistency
  • Compound indexes
  • Increment operations
  • Be sure and check out our Riak interviews: Part 1 and Part 2
  • Mongo vs. CouchDB
  • Couch uses Map/Reduce views
  • Couch has great master-master replication
  • Couch runs on mobile
  • Mongo’s sharding is closer to a relational database
  • Mongo’s Geo features now support more precise, spherical geospatial indexing
  • Mongo shines at
  • User profiles
  • CMS data
  • Mongo enjoys wide language binding support
  • Eliot and 10gen think the Web Scale meme is all in good fun
  • BSON [bee · sahn], short for Bin­ary JSON, is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON-like documents
  • Our interview with Douglas Crockford on JSON
  • MongoDB 2.0 will be focusing on concurrency, aggregation, online compaction, and TTL temporal collections
  • Eliot likes Racket when he’s not slinging C.
  • Linus Torvalds is one of Eliot’s heroes

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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