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I believe MongoDB has a great advantage and will develop more quickly because it is written in C++ and not in Erlang, like CouchDB.

I believe CouchDB has a great advantage and will develop more quickly because it is written in Erlang and not in C++, like MongoDB.

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He could merely be alluding to the fact that a lot more people know C++ than Erlang and therefore will be able to contribute to MongoDB's development.

True. But considering that Erlang was designed especially for high-availability systems and concurrent systems, I would favor a database written in it than in C++.

Of course, it has very little to do with the language and a lot to do with how the code is written, but some things are easier to write in one platform over the other.

What I meant was interpreted correctly by dschobel. I agree that Erlang is more appropriate for the case, however, being MongoDB an open-source project, I believe MongoDB will develop faster because more people will be empowered to make corrections and add new features.

On open source projects, the bulk of the work is done by a few core people. Mongo will progress faster simply because it's got a better core team.

You should write movie scripts.

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