Everything You Know About MongoDB is Wrong!

Thunder Talk

MongoDB is webscale, right? It's a JSON database, it uses map-reduce, it's eventually consistent. Oh, and it's insecure.

Let me take 10 minutes to clear up some things: MongoDB is an ACID-compliant database with transactions, schemas & relationships. It includes a powerful aggregation query language. MongoDB doesn't speak or store JSON, and nowadays it comes with pretty good security defaults (we think).

I'll cover all of this and more, so you know what you need to if you're considering MongoDB for your next (or current) project.

Presented by

Mark Smith

Mark Smith, usually known online as Judy2k, is a Developer Advocate for MongoDB. He specialises in Python and Rust and sometimes dabbles in Go. He's interested in systems architecture and scalability. When he's not sitting at a computer, you'll probably find him snowboarding, designing things to 3D-print, crocheting a hat or building mechanical keyboards.