Over the past decade, following MongoDB’s lead, a raft of new document databases have been introduced and legacy databases have added document capabilities. In 2017, Microsoft layered an API for MongoDB on top of Cosmos DB (at the time called “DocumentDB”, but no longer), and recently Amazon released DocumentDB, which presents a subset of the MongoDB query language atop their Aurora technology. The document model, and the MongoDB API in particular, is flourishing.
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