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Comment by Sandeep Panda on "MongoDB - is it good to soft delete stuff like users, their content or doing HARD delete improves performance?" | Hashnode

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Sandeep Panda

co-founder, Hashnode

May 20, 2019

Hi Abhishek!

I will go with soft delete approach. With this, you can keep a log of questions that have been asked so far -- including the ones that have been deleted. Questions get deleted for varieties of reasons such as spam reports, the OP decides to delete and so on. But you should be able to answer questions such as how many questions came into the system, how many got deleted and for what reason etc. So, it's best to soft delete them even though it results in higher data size.

Abhishek Pathak

Javascript Developer

May 20, 2019

Thanks a lot again sir. Lately I have been asking lot of questions on mongodb, because no where it is taught how to go with a proper approach on simple stuff like these. This is definitely helpful. I might ask few more questions in coming days. I hope hashnode community will shed more light on such topics.

Yeah, what Sandeep said, you have to have an extremely good reason to do hard deletes. Anyone in IT will tell you soft deletes, because at some point, someone is going to ask, what happened. And you better pray that you haven't hard deleted the answer to that question.

Joseph S Stevens

10 years of Software Development, Husband, Father and Functional Programming enthusiast.

May 20, 2019