How Santa Uses MongoDB Part 1: Using Geospatial Indexes to Deliver Presents...
We love watching everyone open their presents on Christmas morning to see what jolly old Santa brought us!Have you ever wondered how Santa delivers 6 billion presents in one night? How does he collect...
View ArticleHow Santa Uses MongoDB Part 2: Delivering Presents and Data Close To You!
Which Presents Should Be Packed Together?In the past, one magical bag fit all, but Santa learned that efficiently grouping presents into several different bags can really reduce his carbon footprint...
View ArticleDatabase of the Year: What it Means
For the second year in a row, MongoDB has been named database of the year by DB-Engines. DB-Engines continues to rank MongoDB as the most popular NoSQL database and the 5th most popular database...
View ArticleVirtualizing MongoDB on Amazon EC2 and GCE: Part 1
Building an infrastructure in the cloud is an increasingly popular choice these days. Low startup costs, flexibility, and ease of deploying to multiple regions are all compelling features for new...
View ArticleBecome a MongoDB Pro in 2015 with Help from MongoDB University
Our mission at MongoDB University is to teach people what they need to know to create and manage great applications built on MongoDB. MongoDB University offers courses in several formats to help...
View ArticleMongoDB Masters Nominations Now Open
We’re excited to announce that we are opening nominations for membership in the MongoDB Masters. New members will be announced at the end of January.What are MongoDB Masters?The MongoDB Masters program...
View ArticleNew to SAP Data Services: Native Support for MongoDB
This is a guest blog by Subha Ramachandran, Vice President, Product Management at SAP Labs. It represents her personal views, thoughts, and opinions. It is not endorsed by SAP nor does it constitute...
View ArticleNative SQL Analytics for MongoDB with SlamData
This is a guest post by John A. De Goes, CTO of SlamData Inc.Thanks to high usability, robust scalability, and powerful query capabilities, MongoDB is by far the most popular NoSQL database in the...
View ArticleVirtualizing MongoDB on Amazon EC2 and GCE: Part 2
In part one of this series, we introduced David Mytton, CTO of Server Density, and discussed his pros and cons of virtualizing infrastructure in public clouds. In part 2, we finish with specific...
View ArticleMaking HIPAA Compliant Applications with MongoDB
Introduction to Security ComplianceAs a Solution Architect at MongoDB, I am often asked a large number of questions by organizations considering using MongoDB as the database layer for an application...
View ArticleBuilding your business is hard. Scaling your business data should not be.
Building your business is hard. Scaling your business data should not be.That's the message Sailthru CTO and co-founder Ian White relayed recently in New York. Over the course of a half-hour, White...
View ArticleRenaming Our Upcoming Release to MongoDB 3.0
Something out of the ordinary is happening today: we’re renaming our upcoming MongoDB release to 3.0. Version numbers are usually set well in advance on a product roadmap, and we’ve already put out 6...
View ArticleSimplifying MongoDB Testing with Mongo Orchestration
IntroductionMongoDB is not only a database, it's also a rich suite of database drivers used to connect various languages to the database. When we develop those language drivers, we need to test...
View ArticleIntroducing the Database Selection Matrix
For the better part of a generation, the database landscape had changed very little. No one could say “this is not your father’s database.” They had become, in a word, boring.Then a combination of...
View ArticleMongoDB and the MEAN Stack: Optimizing an Example Application
Join us for the story of a fictional startup using MongoDB and the rest of the MEAN stack to build a geo-location based app. At MongoDB we want to ensure that all our technical new hires become subject...
View ArticleLeaf in the Wild: Qihoo Scales with MongoDB
100+ apps, 1,500+ Instances, 20B Queries per DayQihoo is China’s number 1 Android mobile distribution platform. Qihoo is also China’s top malware protection company, providing products for both web and...
View ArticleIntroducing the Legacy C++ Driver 1.0
The C/C++ Driver team at MongoDB is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of the legacy C++ driver. The legacy C++ driver provides a (mostly) compatible interface to previous releases of the C++ driver...
View ArticleMongoDB LDAP and Kerberos Authentication with Dell (Quest) Authentication...
By Alex Komyagin @MongoDB with the help of Kyle Robinson @Dell January 2015, NYCOverviewDell (formerly Quest) identity and access management software helps to solve security and administration issues...
View ArticleDVLA Digitises Vital Great Britain Driving Licence Data and Makes it...
How many points do you have on your licence and when do they expire?This question has most drivers from Great Britain reaching for the paper part of their licence (also called counterpart licence...
View ArticleAnnouncing MongoDB 3.0
Today we are announcing MongoDB 3.0. This release marks the beginning of a new phase in which we build on an increasingly mature foundation to deliver a database so powerful, flexible, and easy to...
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