alt Hacker NewsA highly cited reason for using mongo is that people would rather not figure out a schema. (N=3/3 for “serious” orgs I know using mongo).
That sort of inclination to push off doing the right thing now to save yourself a headache down the line probably overlaps with “let’s just make the db publicly exposed” instead of doing the work of setting up an internal network to save yourself a headache down the line.
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TZubiri • yesterday at 10:41 PM
I would have hoped that there would be no important data in mongoDB.
But now we can at least be rest assured that the important data in mongoDB is just very hard to read with the lack of schemas.
Probably all of that nasty "schema" work and tech debt will finally be done by hackers trying to make use of that information.
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> A highly cited reason for using mongo is that people would rather not figure out a schema.
Which is such a cop out, because there is always a schema. The only questions are whether it is designed, documented, and where it's implemented. Mongo requires some very explicit schema decisions, otherwise performance will quickly degrade.