A talk by Catch.com's Director of Platform Engineering on their production deployment of Pylons and MongoDB. Comparison with MySQL and other NoSQL databases, some common gotchas, other tips and tricks.
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MongoDB vs MySQL vs BDB
Feature Comparison
MongoDB MySQL BDB
Master-Slave
Replication
Yes Yes No
Automatic
master
failover
Yes No No
Ad-hoc
Schemas
Yes No No
Manual index
specification
Yes Yes Yes
Rich query
language
Yes Yes No
Joins No Yes No