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		taligent on Oct 18, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago Just because you can write an app using assembler doesn't mean it is the best way to do it.

dude_abides on Oct 18, 2012 [–]

Very tempted to ask "In what way does postgres compare to an assembler and mongodb to a high level language?" but I think I'll just assume that you're trolling.

Besides, SQL sounds more high-level than map-reduce to me.

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