Has anyone used an object database with a large amount of data?

Question

Object databases like MongoDB and db4o are getting lots of publicity lately. Everyone that plays with them seems to love it. I\'m guessing that they are dealing with about

Answer 1

You should read the MongoDB use cases. People who are just playing with technology are often just looking at how does this work and are not at the point where they can understand the limitations. For the right sorts of datasets and access patterns 50GB is nothing for MongoDB running on the right hardware.

These non-relational systems look at the trade-offs which RDBMs made, and changed them a bit. Consistency is not as important as other things in some situations so these solutions let you trade that off for something else. The trade-off is still relatively minor ms or maybe secs in some situations.

It is worth reading about the CAP theorem too.