By David Mytton, CEO & Founder of Server Density. Published on the 21st July, 2011. Over the 2 years we’ve been using MongoDB in production with our server monitoring tool, Server Density, we’ve built up significant experience and knowledge about how it works. Back in 2009 when I was looking at a replacement for MySQL I looked at Cassandra but dismissed it because MongoDB had several advantages, a
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