Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order> Let's start with the simplest one. Making the developer interface to the database a structured format instead of a textual query language was a clear win. I think this is the most significant factor, by far. With Mongo it's turtles (or at least Maps/Hashes) all the way down, without a strange pseudo-english layer near the bottom that forces you to translate back and forth. For some devs that's a big deal. For the last while I've been experimenting with…
Marketing. Marketing is what MongoDB got right, along with a small helping of being early to market. It's not even the best or most convenient document store, doesn't have the most features, isn't the most secure, doesn't handle high availability the best, they basically got everything just "good enough" (and sometimes not), along with stellar marketing. They marketed their asses off while they iterated to build a document store that was worth the praise they got people to heap on…
The release notes for the upcoming version of MongoDB may be interesting here: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/release-notes/3.2/
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 251
- Total comments
- 204
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-10 | What MongoDB Got Right | lizdenys | 16 | 1 |
| 2015-11-11 | What MongoDB got Right | tim_sw | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-11-12 | What MongoDB got rightFirst breakout · Best thread | reqres | 144 | 110 |
| 2017-11-28 | What MongoDB got right (2015)Latest 20+ point return | wheresvic3 | 89 | 93 |
| 2022-03-06 | What MongoDB got right (2015)Hall induction | rrampage | 1 | 0 |