![]() ![]() Below are illustrations of the relational (SQL) model versus the document model. The key to using Mongo or SQL Server effectively is understanding how the underlying data model works and how this impacts your ability to read / write what you want when you want to the datastore. My goal in writing this is to help inform you on how you should decide to judge these two technologies as options for your ASP.NET / WebMatrix / WCF applications. What I’ve learned since is that MongoDB and SQL Server are tools that aren’t 100% interchangeable and are more situational than dogmatists make them out to be. Since then I’ve gone on to build other projects which depend on Mongo. What made Captain Obvious special for me was that it was my first time using something other than a relational database in production – I chose MongoDB because it stands out to me as a lightweight, easy-to-work with store that’s easier to use for most CRUD applications. One of the first projects I put together this year was Captain Obvious, a nifty little application that runs off of AppHarbor and ASP.NET MVC3. ![]()
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