https://blog.vnykmshr.com/writing/tags/mongodb/Recent content in Mongodb on vnykmshrHugoenWed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.vnykmshr.com/writing/rolling-your-own-search/Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.vnykmshr.com/writing/rolling-your-own-search/<p>The shop needed catalog search. Users type something, products come back. Sounds trivial until you start building it.</p> <p>Our stack is Node.js, MySQL for the primary data store, MongoDB for everything else we need to go fast. The catalog lives in MySQL &ndash; products, categories, attributes, prices. Normalized, relational, correct. But relational isn&rsquo;t searchable. Try finding &ldquo;blue cotton kurta&rdquo; across five joined tables with MySQL FULLTEXT on MyISAM. It sort of works. The relevance is terrible.</p>