Improved Password-Based Authentication in MongoDB 3.0: SCRAM Explained (Part 1)
MongoDB 3.0 features a new password authentication mechanism called Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism or SCRAM (see RFC5802). MongoDB 3.0 uses SCRAM as the default authentication...
View ArticleMongoDB Security Best Practices
MongoDB takes security very seriously. Recently a team of German researchers discovered unsecured instances of MongoDB running openly on the internet. Readers who are concerned about access to their...
View ArticleImproved password-based authentication in MongoDB 3.0: SCRAM Explained (Part 2)
In MongoDB 3.0, SCRAM is now the default password-based authentication mechanism. In the first post in this series, we introduced the threat-model SCRAM is designed to counter, and explained the inner...
View ArticleCapacity Planning and Hardware Provisioning for MongoDB In Ten Minutes
Most MongoDB deployments run on a cluster of multiple servers. This may introduce capacity planning and provisioning complexities beyond that of traditional databases. Solution Architect Chad Tindel’s...
View ArticleMongoDB World Registration Open
100+ MongoDB tech talks, 2,000 fellow MongoDB users, hands-on developer spaces, food, sponsor swag, round-the-clock coffee and a party under a giant whale. What could be better? We can’t think of...
View ArticleWeather of the Century: Part 1
Ever wonder what the weather was like in your birthplace the day you were born? Building an app to answer this question for anyone (from this planet at least) was the subject of talks on visualization...
View ArticleUsing MongoDB with Hadoop & Spark: Part 1 - Introduction & Setup
Hadoop is a software technology designed for storing and processing large volumes of data distributed across a cluster of commodity servers and commodity storage. Hadoop was initially inspired by...
View ArticleWhat’s New in MongoDB 3.0 Part 1: 95% Reduction in Operational Overhead and...
It’s been a couple of weeks now since our co-founder and CTO announced MongoDB 3.0. The reaction from the community has blown us away as architects, developers and ops teams look to bring MongoDB’s...
View ArticleUsing MongoDB with Hadoop & Spark: Part 2 - Hive Example
Welcome to part two of our three-part series on MongoDB and Hadoop. In part one, we introduced Hadoop and how to set it up. In this post, we'll look at a Hive example.Introduction & Setup of Hadoop...
View ArticleUsing MongoDB with Hadoop & Spark: Part 3 - Spark Example & Key...
Welcome to the final part of our three-part series on MongoDB and Hadoop. In this post, we'll look at a Spark example.Introduction & Setup of Hadoop and MongoDBHive ExampleSpark Example & Key...
View ArticleWhat’s New in MongoDB 3.0 Part 2: Richer Query Language, Enhanced Tools and...
Welcome to part 2 of our 3-part MongoDB 3.0 blog series. In part 1 we covered the new MongoDB Ops Manager platform, demonstrating how it can reduce operational overhead by up to 95%. We also covered...
View ArticleWhat’s New in MongoDB 3.0 Part 3: Performance & Efficiency Gains, New...
Welcome to the final part of our 3-part MongoDB 3.0 blog series. In part 1 we covered the new MongoDB Ops Manager platform, demonstrating how it can reduce operational overhead by up to 95%. We also...
View ArticleWeather of the Century: Part 2
In part one of this series, we took a look at the Weather of the Century App, which uses the Integrated Surface Data made available by NOAA loaded into MongoDB to display the weather anywhere on Earth...
View ArticleMongoDB 3.0 features: Big Polygon
MongoDB has supported geospatial queries since MongoDB 1.4, and has added new geospatial features with most releases, including support for simple polygons in MongoDB 2.0, GeoJSON in MongoDB 2.4, and...
View ArticleIntroducing the New C++ Driver
This post introduces an entirely new MongoDB C++ driver. We describe the new driver, provide examples, and invite users for feedback on the new driver.In a previous post we announced the legacy-1.0...
View ArticleMongoDB 3.0 and MongoDB Ops Manager are Now Generally Available
MongoDB 3.0 is now generally available for production deployments - download the community version or MongoDB Enterprise, with Ops Manager today.Thank you to our community for participating in the bug...
View ArticleWeather of the Century: Part 3
Previously in this seriesIn part one of this series we introduced NOAA, the ISD data set, and the way we transformed the ISD data from a packed ASCII storage format into a MongoDB collection.In part...
View ArticleAutomate operational management of MongoDB with HP Operations Bridge
This is a guest blog post by Manoj Mohanan, Technical Marketing Specialist at HP.Over the past few years, non-relational databases have seen tremendous growth and acceptance across industries, with...
View ArticleMongoDB at Adobe Summit: Scaling Digital Experiences for Global Audiences
Used by top brands like Panasonic, Verizon Wireless, Audi, and more, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is one of the leading enterprise content management systems on the market.AEM 6.0 is the next step...
View ArticleCreating a Single View Part 1: Overview & Data Analysis
This series of three blog posts will provide an introduction to building a Single View with MongoDB. Part 1 covers an overview of what a Single View might look like and what you should consider while...
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