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FerretDB Blog
Company blog · blog.ferretdb.ioprogrammingdata
FerretDB Blog is the company blog at blog.ferretdb.io, writing about programming and data. Since 2023, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “FerretDB Releases 2.0: A Faster, More Compatible MongoDB Alternative”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link FerretDB's blog for explanations of storing BSON in Postgres JSONB and of its MongoDB wire-protocol layer, and for project announcements such as the v2 release and the DocumentDB open-source news.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog
Most-linked posts?
- /pjson-how-to-store-bson-in-jsonb/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-12
- FerretDB Releases 2.0: A Faster, More Compatible MongoDB Alternative2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-23
- FerretDB, a truly open-source MongoDB alternative2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-11
- FerretDB 2.0 GA: open-source MongoDB alternative, ready for production2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-06
What Hacker News says?
There is an open-source proxy for PostgreSQL with DocumentDB to implement the MongoDB interface: https://blog.ferretdb.io/ferretdb-v2-ga-open-source-mongodb-...
Comment linking /ferretdb-v2-ga-open-source-mongodb-alternative-ready-for-production/
on “Fauna Service Winding Down”Submitted FerretDB Releases 2.0: A Faster, More Compatible MongoDB Alternative as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSome time ago, we wrote a blog post about it: https://blog.ferretdb.io/pjson-how-to-store-bson-in-jsonb/ A few details changed after that (for example, type information is not mixed with values anymore), but the general idea is the same. We probably need to document it better. Yes, querying it with SQL should be possible.
Comment linking /pjson-how-to-store-bson-in-jsonb/
on “Show HN: MongoDB Protocol for SQLite”Submitted FerretDB, a truly open-source MongoDB alternative as a story · 10 points
HN discussionLooks like they mentioned your DB in a (probably SEO-bait) blog post here: https://blog.ferretdb.io/5-database-alternatives-mongodb-202...
Comment linking /5-database-alternatives-mongodb-2023/
on “FerretDB, a truly open-source MongoDB alternative”Submitted FerretDB 2.0 GA: open-source MongoDB alternative, ready for production as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYes, FerretDB is a layer which implements the MongoDB wire protocol on top of Postgres. Right now we are using JSONB, but this affects performance and we need to depart from this strategy in the long run. We have an article which explains the concept [1]. I wouldn't go into the document vs. relational argument, all arguments for and against would have merit. There are valid use cases for document databases (take e-c…
Comment linking /pjson-how-to-store-bson-in-jsonb/
on “FerretDB, a truly open-source MongoDB alternative”Submitted FerretDB Cloud: MongoDB-compatible DBaas, built on open-source DocumentDB as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFerretDB blog post https://blog.ferretdb.io/ferretdb-releases-v2-faster-more-co...
Comment linking /ferretdb-releases-v2-faster-more-compatible-mongodb-alternative/
on “DocumentDB: Open-Source Announcement”Submitted OpenTelemetry Context Propagation in FerretDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm familiar with MongoDB's BSON, but not JSONB. Here is an article I found that talks about the differences: https://blog.ferretdb.io/pjson-how-to-store-bson-in-jsonb/
Comment linking /pjson-how-to-store-bson-in-jsonb/
on “JSONB Has Landed in SQLite”Submitted PostgreSQL – can it be a database for everything? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt’s been a while since FerretDB (well, we were called MangoDB back then) was first posted on HN. Back then, it was nothing but a tech demo - today, FerretDB is being used in production. We’ve received a lot of great feedback on HN, which we used to set the direction of our project. So it’s only natural that we want to show HN what we used your input for. Please give it a try and let us know how it went. Read more a…
Comment linking /ferretdb-1-0-ga-opensource-mongodb-alternative/
on “FerretDB 1.0 GA: open-source MongoDB alternative built on Postgres”Submitted How to Run MongoDB Workloads with FerretDB on Tembo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FerretDB v1.1.0 Released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interactive FerretDB Tutorial as a story · 1 points
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