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this blog post talks a bit about a real world implementation and when they do and do not use memcached with mongodb: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-we-use-mongodb-2009-11

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I've tried MongoDB with the C++ API. I had a lot of problems in particular with the BSON objects and then switched to Memcached (+ MySQL). Do you think that the "production" version is working ok for all API's?

What problems?

Sluggy.com has been using MongoDB in production (with Python as it's main API interface) since ~July '09.

We haven't had a single problem with Mongo or API interfaces. This replaced MySQL + Memcache and was a MASSIVE difference in system load and performance.

Your mileage may vary, but it's very, very rare that I can say I haven't had a single real problem with a third party package (especially one as complicated as a database-type system), more so with early adoption.

(I'm still using Memcache for a few legacy pieces, but in general things I was having Beaker stuff in Memcache such as sessions and Pylons template caches are going into the Mongo Beaker plugin I wrote - http://bitbucket.org/bwmcadams/mongodb_beaker/ )

Yeah, It works for me too with the Python API. But I have to develop some backend app with C++.

Anyway I think I'll try again in the future.

The C++ API should work well as it is what we use in the database. The only issues is that it depends on boost, and any binary copy of the library depends on a specific version of boost. You may want to try compiling libmongoclient for your computer. If you still have issues, please post to our user list or ping us on irc.

I wanted to contact you guys but I'm running out of time this week.

I'll build the production version when I have some free time and then I could tell you. (I was working with v1.3.4)

please post details on mongodb-user forums generally, it works

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