Thursday, August 23, 2012

My answer to "is mongodb better than mysql?"

This is my answer to a Question on Support site for LampCMS project


For this type of site (Q&A or forum) MongoDB is perfect. Especially if the site will grow to very large site. Also performance (speed) is better with Mongo because there are never table joins.

Lastly it's fairly easy to add extra servers when your think your site is outgrowing one-server installation.
Also from deveoper's point of view it's alot faster to develop programs with Mongo than with MySQL because you don't need to change table schema when you want to add new fields.

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