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Sure he was: "Absolutely no benefit to Mongo. It's even really slow,..."



He did indeed, but it was in response to the following questions:

"In the case of MongoDB i have worked with an ODM [by which he means ORM] on top of it where i had to define a Schema and Object relations and was left wondering: What is the benefit of this anyway if i still define Schemas and relationsships ?"


i actually meant ODM which refers to Object Document Mapping in contrast to ORM which refers to Object Relational Mapping

eg: http://mongoosejs.com/ http://docs.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-mongodb-o...


MongoDB stores JSON (in binary form) - serialized Javascript objects. That there is what looks to be a large and polished library for mapping between the two is a huge red flag to me.


Well there you are. I learn something every day! Sorry about that.




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