bubersson/humla — Issue #10: Replace MongoDB
Author: ladariha
Created: 2011-12-21 15:37:54+00:00
State: open

We agreed on removing MongoDB from Humla's design because it requires running a database server and Humla should be as easy to install as possible. So I did some research and found some possible replacements:

* Alfred (http://pgte.github.com/alfred/) - probably #1 for me, looks pretty capable
* tabler (https://github.com/aarong/tabler/) - offers support for several kinds of backends ( now probably AmazonDB and JSON files, but MySQL is on the way), so it could fit to more users
* perstore (https://github.com/kriszyp/perstore) - similar to tabler

There is also node-dirty (https://github.com/felixge/node-dirty), but according to author it's effective only for <= 1mil records...

I think having a document-based DB could be both useful and easy to install since you need to install only the node module using npm. What do you think?