MongoDB wants to grab work from other databases

At MongoDB's recent conference in New York, the company demonstrated its ambition in taking on workloads from other databases. The company has made significant inroads into the database market with a developer-friendly distributed document database to help devs build modern, web-based, transactional systems. Time series and …

[Korev]

It looks like it might finally be web scale...

[Anonymous Coward]

Budget

I wonder what percentage of this company's budget goes to R&D and how much goes to marketing.

[Charlie Clark]

Columnar store?

I thought the big advantage was that it's a "document" database that doesn't need the stinking columns and tuples of relational databases?

Elsewhere, in the relational world, columnar storage has been around for those that need it for a while. Why, if I'm already running Postgres with the option of columnar storage for my time series stuff and binary JSON for the volatile data, but have ACID storage for all the transactional stuff, would I look something that does binary JSON and is just introducing columnar storage? With all the additional overhead I guess it's just as well that you can spawn so many processes…

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Columnar store?

> With all the additional overhead I guess it's just as well that you can spawn so many processes…

…and storage volumes. To put it succinctly, Mongo is a steaming pile of shite.