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alexchamberlain on April 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Year with MongoDB

I am a schemaless believer.

BUT (big BUT) have you ever tried to program to a schema that has a XML blob? It's really difficult and painfully slow on the app side. The ops guys like it, because it's easy for them to maintain.

radicalbyte on April 13, 2012 [–]

I find it much easier, but then I rely on a framework for serialization/de-serialization..

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