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sv123 on Sept 9, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: 3 reasons to use MongoDB

seems like a relational database to me...only without the ability to join?

kchodorow on Sept 9, 2010 [–]

Sort of. MongoDB tried to keep a lot of the trimmings of a relational database, but remain scalable. Joins are handy, but don't scale well.

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