MongoDB, NoSQL, Web Scale (Changelog Interviews #51)

Steve and Wynn sat down with Eliot Horowitz from 10gen to talk about MongoDB, the NoSQL landscape, and the fun of building at Web Scale.

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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
• Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Eliot Horowitz CTO and Co-Founder of 10gen
• Dwight Merriman CEO & Co-Founder at 10gen
• NoSQL is a loose term for Key Value Stores, Graph Databases, and Document Databases
• MongoDB still has a large roadmap ahead
• MongoDB was first featured on The Changelog over a year ago
• Single server durability tops the list of new additions in 1.8
• Replica sets are an elaboration on the existing master/slave replication, adding automatic failover and automatic recovery of member nodes
• Shutterfly and Foursquare boast some of the largest MongoDB implemenation
• MongoDB’s sharding enables horizontal scaling across multiple nodes.
• Mongo vs. Riak (and other Dynamo inspired stores)
• Full vs. eventual consistency
• Compound indexes
• Increment operations
• Be sure and check out our Riak interviews: Part 1 and Part 2
• Mongo vs. CouchDB
• Couch uses Map/Reduce views
• Couch has great master-master replication
• Couch runs on mobile
• Mongo’s sharding is closer to a relational database
• Mongo’s Geo features now support more precise, spherical geospatial indexing
• Mongo shines at
• User profiles
• CMS data
• Mongo enjoys wide language binding support
• Eliot and 10gen think the Web Scale meme is all in good fun
• BSON [bee · sahn], short for Bin­ary JSON, is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON-like documents
• Our interview with Douglas Crockford on JSON
• MongoDB 2.0 will be focusing on concurrency, aggregation, online compaction, and TTL temporal collections
• Eliot likes Racket when he’s not slinging C.
• Linus Torvalds is one of Eliot’s heroes

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