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jmay
jmay

Reputation: 471

Is Mongo good for transient storage (high volume of object creates & deletes)?

I have an application that will periodically create a large number (10,000+) of hashes (collections of name/value pairs). The hashes may be manipulated a few times, and then deleted.

Is MongoDB an appropriate choice for this? Are there any obviously-better-suited alternatives?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 262

Answers (2)

Gates VP
Gates VP

Reputation: 45307

@jmay: there are tons of potential solutions for this stuff: Redis, TokyoCabinet, MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra, HBase... just take your pick.

If you consider 10,000+ to be "a large number" then any of these systems will work for you. I'm using Mongo with systems that have four more zeros.

Personally, I like Mongo because it's relatively quick and easy to set up. Check out their quickstart guide and you'll see what I mean.

Upvotes: 1

Peter Tillemans
Peter Tillemans

Reputation: 35341

Mongo is a document database and a bit overkill for key/value pairs. It's strength lies in that it can do ad hoc queries in the documents. If you need this, then that's great.

Take a look at tokyocabinet. This is rumored to be a very fast key/value store.

Upvotes: 1

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