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brainless on March 31, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Retrospective from Postmark on outages (MongoDB)

Are they using MongoDB for the wrong purposes? The task they have seems similar to logging and if so aren't there much better software to do that? A logging server perhaps?

rogerbinns on March 31, 2012 [–]

MongoDB does have what it calls capped collections - the semantics are the same as a circular log. No idea why they don't use that storage format.

In any event this problem is one of success. That is the kind of problem I prefer having.

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