Franck Pachot

🥑 Developer Advocate at 🍃 MongoDB, 🔶 AWS Data Hero, 🐘 PostgreSQL fan,▝▞ YugabyteDB expert, 🅾️ Oracle Certified Master, and 💚 loving all databases 🛢️

Lausanne, Switzerland Joined on Nov 12, 2018 https://www.linkedin.com/in/franckpachot

Education

Master MIAGE, Université Paris-Sud, France

Work

Developer Advocate at MongoDB

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Franck Pachot for MongoDB

Aug 7

MongoDB indexing internals: .showRecordId() and .hint({$natural:1})

#mongodb #database #storage #clustered

13 min read

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Jun 6

Isolation Level for MongoDB Multi-Document Transactions (Strong Consistency)

#mongodb #document #database #acid

11 min read

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May 23

Intro to PostgreSQL with JSONB compared to MongoDB, a general purpose document database

#postgres #mongodb #json #document

2 min read

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Apr 13

MongoDB With Search Indexes Queried as Kimball's Star Schema With Facts and Dimensions

#mongodb #search #index #analytics

10 min read

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Sep 1

DocumentDB: Comparing Emulation Internals with MongoDB

#mongodb #postgres #documentdb #cloud

18 min read

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Franck Pachot

Aug 28

Updates to the Same Value: MongoDB Optimization

#mongodb #postgres #database #sql

7 min read

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Aug 27

PostgreSQL JSONB Size Limits to Prevent TOAST Slicing

#postgres #toast #document #jsonb

6 min read

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Aug 24

Embedding Into JSONB Still Feels Like a JOIN for Large Documents

#postgres #mongodb #json #database

21 min read

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Aug 18

MongoDB Arrays: Sort Order and Comparison

#mongodb #document #database #array

16 min read

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Aug 15

Why Doesn't Oracle Multi-Value Index Optimize .sort() Like MongoDB Does With its Multi-Key Index?

#mongodb #oracle #index #json

15 min read

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Aug 12

Does PostgreSQL support as much "schema flexibility" as MongoDB? Not for indexing!

#postgres #json #jsonb #mongodb

8 min read

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Aug 11

PostgreSQL UUID: Bulk insert with UUIDv7 vs UUIDv4

#postgres #uuid #sql #database

10 min read

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Aug 8

Joining and grouping on array fields in MongoDB may require using $unwind before applying $group or $lookup

#mongodb #document #database #postgres

5 min read

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Aug 5

Transaction performance 👉🏻 retry with backoff

#mongodb #transaction #benchmark #performance

7 min read

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Aug 4

Why MongoDB skips indexes when flattening or renaming sub-document fields in $project before $match aggregation pipeline

#mongodb #document #database #index

6 min read

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Aug 2

MongoDB High Availability: Replica Set in a Docker Lab

#mongodb #database #docker #devops

12 min read

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Jul 23

Lock-Free Wait-on-Conflict and Fail-on-Conflict in MongoDB

#mongodb #database #transaction #consistency

9 min read

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Jul 22

.hint() in MongoDB is different that SQL optimizer hints: they force indexes

#mongodb #document #database #index

8 min read

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Jul 21

Database latency with PostgreSQL and MongoDB: it's the data model that makes it fast

#mongodb #database #postgres #edge

14 min read

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Jul 20

$isArray: [💬,💬,💬] ❌ - Arrays are Argument Lists in MongoDB Aggregation Pipeline

4 min read

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Jul 18

Sequences in MongoDB

#mongodb #database #sequence #sql

4 min read

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Jul 10

Wildcard Indexes: MongoDB flexibility joins query performance

#mongodb #document #database #index

5 min read

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Jul 8

ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN

#postgres #mongodb #database #performance

12 min read

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Jun 30

Strong consistency 👉🏻 MongoDB highly available durable writes (Replication)

#mongodb #acid #consistency #database

11 min read

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Jun 28

Flush to disk on commit 👉🏻 MongoDB durable writes (ACID)

#mongodb #document #database #acid

9 min read

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Jun 24

No pre-filtering in pgvector means reduced ANN recall ( impact on Vector Search accuracy)

#postgres #vector #database #mongodb

12 min read

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Jun 22

faster $lookup after $group in MongoDB aggregation pipeline (Performance Optimization Tips)

#mongodb #lookup #join #performance

2 min read

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Jun 19

One million $lookup challenge (performance comparison)

#mongodb #document #database #join

6 min read

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Jun 17

$lookup: more than just a SQL join (understand performance)

#mongodb #document #database #sql

5 min read

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Jun 15

Queries on JSON 👉🏻 compound indexes (Equality, Sort, Range) in MongoDB

#mongodb #document #postgres #json

8 min read

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Jun 13

DuckDB to query MongoDB

#postgres #mongodb #duckdb #analytics

11 min read

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Jun 9

Comparison of JOINS 👉🏻 aggregation pipeline and CTEs

#mongodb #lookup #join #aggregation

7 min read

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Jun 9

"Schema Later" considered harmful 👉🏻 schema validation (enforced data consistency)

#mongodb #document #database #postgres

3 min read

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Jun 4

JSONB DeTOASTing (read amplification) when using PostgreSQL as a Document Database

#postgres #jsonb #document #database

5 min read

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May 31

No HOT updates on JSONB (write amplification) performance impact

#postgres #document #database #mongodb

7 min read

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May 29

$graphLookup (Connect By / Recursive Query)

#mongodb #document #database #index

2 min read

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May 28

$elemMatch and Multi-Key Indexes

#mongodb #document #database #index

4 min read

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May 27

Google Firestore with MongoDB compatibility - index limitations

#mongodb #database #index #firestore

6 min read

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May 27

Sort on Array with Multi-Key Index

#mongodb #document #database #index

5 min read

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May 26

Equality with Multiple Values, Preserving Sort for Pagination

#mongodb #database #index #performance

5 min read

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May 24

No Index for LIKE on JSONB with Array in the Path (GIN limitation)

#mongodb #postgres #database #index

5 min read

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May 23

B-Tree for Equality, Sort, Range (indexing strategies in MongoDB)

#mongodb #database #index #performance

3 min read

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May 23

No Index Only Scan on JSONB Fields (even on scalar)

#postgres #mongodb #json #document

4 min read

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May 22

Search Index for Reporting

#mongodb #database #index #performance

2 min read

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May 22

Sampling Without Index

#mongodb #database #index #performance

2 min read

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May 22

Indexing for New Use Cases Within the MongoDB Document Model (tutorial)

#mongodb #database #index #performance

3 min read

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May 6

HTAP Using a Star Query on MongoDB Atlas Search Index

#mongodb #htap #olap #database

14 min read

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May 5

Amazon DocumentDB and multi-key indexing

#mongodb #aws #documentdb #index

8 min read

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May 4

Amazon DocumentDB != Microsoft DocumentDB extension for PostgreSQL

#documentdb #aws #azure #mongodb

3 min read

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May 1

Microsoft CosmosDB: RUM instead of GIN but same limitations on JSON paths

#mongodb #postgres #document #database

15 min read

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Apr 30

Querying embedded arrays in JSON (PostgreSQL JSONB and MongoDB documents)

#postgres #json #sql #mongodb

5 min read

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Apr 28

PostgreSQL aborts the transactions on error

#postgres #sql #database #savepoint

3 min read

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Apr 27

Index Only Scan on JSON Documents in MongoDB, with covering and multi-key indexes

#database #index #webdev #programming

10 min read

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Apr 15

PostgreSQL JSONB Indexing Limitations with B-Tree and GIN

#postgres #gin #btree #jsonb

8 min read

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Apr 11

Oracle Multi-Value Index and ORDER BY Pagination queries

#mongodb #oracle #multivalue #oson

7 min read

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Apr 6

Where SQL joins struggle but MongoDB documents shine

#mongodb #postgres #sql #database

9 min read

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Apr 3

Foreign Keys: A must in SQL, but not in a Document Database?

#mongodb #sql #database #postgres

7 min read

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Mar 31

The World Is Too Messy for SQL to Work

#sql #database #relational #document

10 min read

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Mar 26

MongoDB Vector Search Index, With Local Atlas and Ollama

#mongodb #vectordatabase #llm #ai

4 min read

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Mar 24

MongoDB TTL and Disk Storage

#mongodb #ttl #index #database

4 min read

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Mar 19

MongoDB equivalent for PostgreSQL JSONB operations

#postgres #mongodb #document #database

12 min read

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Mar 17

Normalization and Relational Division in SQL and MongoDB

#mongodb #sql #relational #database

7 min read

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Mar 13

MongoDB Multi-Planner Optimizer and Plan Cache

#mongodb #database #optimizer #planner

13 min read

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Mar 9

Comparing Execution Plans: MongoDB vs. Compatible APIs

#mongodb #oracle #database #index

6 min read