Why Square stopped maintaining Cube?

[Ygor Lemos]

Hi,

We are building heavy monitoring stuff with MongoDB in a way very close to what Cube did. Anybody has info on why Square stopped using/maintaining it?

Did they reach MongoDB limits? Migrate to time-series oriented database? Anybody knows why?

I'm curious if it stopped fitting their needs and what was the culprit...

Thanks!

[Tom Carden]

We stopped using Cube seriously over 3 years ago. It continued to be used to capture business metrics (including payments, user signups etc) but was never seriously used for higher frequency system metrics. We have a lot of operational investment in MySQL (and Redis and Hadoop) and chose not to invest in MongoDB as well.

I tried a couple of times to keep it going as a personal research project and also to merge the infochimps fork back into the main branch, but I was not able to prioritize the effort given other commitments.

Cube remains a bunch of interesting ideas, but its node dependencies are outdated and it's never been restructured to take advantage of newer mongo features either.

Hope that gives some context.

Tom.

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[Matt Muyres]

here is our version of an upgrade, I dont promise the world but it works for us on Heroku.

uses Node.js 6.2 with Mongodb 3.x and MongoClient 2.2

https://github.com/enrich/SquareCube


If what you can if you find something I did wrong.

[Julian Knocke]

Hi Matt,

I am looking for a cube version which works with a more recent version of the MongoDB driver. Sadly I get a 404 on https://github.com/enrich/SquareCube.
Is it private?
I also found https://github.com/enrich/heroku-cube-DEFUNCT and https://github.com/enrich/cube, but neither had a branch with a current version.

Regards,
Julian