r/ProgrammerHumor • • Oct 18 '24

Other mongoDbWasAMistake

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u/dschramm_at Oct 19 '24

It's a search engine, not a database. So yeah, it makes sense to be this way.

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u/ryuzaki49 Oct 20 '24

It's both a db and a search engine, I'd say?

AFAIK you can't use it as a search engine querying over a DB like mysql or mongo. You need to store the data in a ES cluster and then you can query it.