This document discusses the author's experience using MongoDB over one year, identifying things they found good, bad, and ugly. Some positives included the schema-less design, query language, and Ruby ORM support. Negatives included the 2GB database limit on 32-bit machines, migration challenges, date handling, management tools, replication support at the driver level, lack of transactions, and issues using it as a relational database. The author concluded they look forward to continued use of MongoDB despite some frustrations.

1. One Year with MongoDB
the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

2. Good: Schema-less

3. Bad: 2GB Database Limit
on 32bit Machine

4. Ugly: Migrations

5. Ugly: Dates

6. Good: Query Language

7. Ugly: Management Tools
and Interfaces

8. Good: Ruby ORM
Support

9. Bad: Replication Suport
at the Driver Level

10. Ugly: (non)Transaction
Support

11. Ugly: Using a Document Store
as a Relational Database

12. Ugly: Long Field Names

13. Bad: Background
Indexing

14. Good: Replication
It’s Easy™
It’s Easy™

15. Ugly: Replica Sets Need
to be in Threes

16. Good: Very Fast to Setup

17. Bad: No Authentication
by Default

18. It’s been a great year, and our team
is looking for many more years of
MongoDB goodness :)
(actually we just want like the pizza)

19. @parasquid
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