MongoDB Optimization Part 1 | A Scuba Blog by 0xecho
As many before me, I was introduced to database systems in university, with a relational DBMS. I learned about normalization, transactions, ACID … the list goes on. So when I first heard of this mystical thing called a document database, which didn’t use SQL, which very publicly denounced normalization, I was a bit skeptical. How could a document database be better than a relational database? After all, relational databases have been around for a very long time, and have been used to build some of the most complex systems in the world. I thought it was just a fad, and that it would die out soon. But, oh boy, was I wrong. After working with mongo for a while, I have come to appreciate its simplicity a
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MongoDB Optimization Part 1 | A Scuba Blog by 0xecho
As many before me, I was introduced to database systems in university, with a relational DBMS. I learned about normalization, transactions, ACID … the list goes on. So when I first heard of this mystical thing called a document database, which didn’t use SQL, which very publicly denounced normalization, I was a bit skeptical. How could a document database be better than a relational database? After all, relational databases have been around for a very long time, and have been used to build some of the most complex systems in the world. I thought it was just a fad, and that it would die out soon. But, oh boy, was I wrong. After working with mongo for a while, I have come to appreciate its simplicity a
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