Has anyone used an object database with a large amount of data?

Question

Object databases like MongoDB and db4o are getting lots of publicity lately. Everyone that plays with them seems to love it. I\'m guessing that they are dealing with about

Answer 1

Someone just went into production with a 12 terabytes of data in MongoDB. The largest I knew of before that was 1 TB. Lots of people are keeping really large amounts of data in Mongo.

It's important to remember that Mongo works a lot like a relational database: you need the right indexes to get good performance. You can use explain() on queries and contact the user list for help with this.