<story><title>Jepsen Disputes MongoDB&apos;s Data Consistency Claims</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/Jepsen-MongoDB-4-2-6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>You can tell a lot about a developer by their preferred database.&lt;p&gt;* Mongo: I like things easy, even if easy is dangerous. I probably write Javascript exclusively&lt;p&gt;* MySQL: I don&amp;#x27;t like to rock the boat, and MySQL is available everywhere&lt;p&gt;* PostgreSQL: I&amp;#x27;m not afraid of the command line&lt;p&gt;* H2: My company can&amp;#x27;t afford a database admin, so I embedded the database in our application (I have actually done this)&lt;p&gt;* SQLite: I&amp;#x27;m either using SQLite as my app&amp;#x27;s file format, writing a smartphone app, or about to realize the difference between load-in-test and load-in-production&lt;p&gt;* RabbitMQ: I don&amp;#x27;t know what a database is&lt;p&gt;* Redis: I got tired of optimizing SQL queries&lt;p&gt;* Oracle: I&amp;#x27;m being paid to sell you Oracle</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceocoder</author><text>This might be a stupid question, but surely no one thinks of RabbigMQ as a &lt;i&gt;database&lt;/i&gt; right?  I’ve used it from 2012 to 2018 extensively, including using things like shovels to build hub spoke topologies, however not once did I think of it as anything but a message broker.&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something huge?</text></comment>
<story><title>Jepsen Disputes MongoDB&apos;s Data Consistency Claims</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/Jepsen-MongoDB-4-2-6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>You can tell a lot about a developer by their preferred database.&lt;p&gt;* Mongo: I like things easy, even if easy is dangerous. I probably write Javascript exclusively&lt;p&gt;* MySQL: I don&amp;#x27;t like to rock the boat, and MySQL is available everywhere&lt;p&gt;* PostgreSQL: I&amp;#x27;m not afraid of the command line&lt;p&gt;* H2: My company can&amp;#x27;t afford a database admin, so I embedded the database in our application (I have actually done this)&lt;p&gt;* SQLite: I&amp;#x27;m either using SQLite as my app&amp;#x27;s file format, writing a smartphone app, or about to realize the difference between load-in-test and load-in-production&lt;p&gt;* RabbitMQ: I don&amp;#x27;t know what a database is&lt;p&gt;* Redis: I got tired of optimizing SQL queries&lt;p&gt;* Oracle: I&amp;#x27;m being paid to sell you Oracle</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1123581321</author><text>As someone who chose MySQL and provides direction to developers who really like Postgres, and who also uses Postgres for fun, I do find myself having to both defend MySQL as a prudent option and convince them that I know anything at all about Postgres or computer science. :)</text></comment>