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27th July 2009 - Link Blog

Why we migrated from MySQL to MongoDB. Includes some useful information on MongoDB’s limitations—for example, running many different collections can waste disk space and repairing large datasets or bulk deleting many rows can block and lock the database for the duration of the operation.

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 27th July 2009.

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