An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
With more than 70 million database downloads served, MongoDB is still not competing with McDonald’s for numbers, but they are certainly massively consumed by developers seeking an open, NoSQL document-based approach with more flexibility than first generation relational databases could have offered.
Now passing the 10-year anniversary of their pioneering namesake open-sourced database, MongoDB has parlayed this popularity into a successful core database support and maintenance business, and, over the last 3-4 years, into a high-growth cloud-based global DBaaS (database as a service) called Atlas.
It stands to reason that a cloud platform would be next, to appeal to the thousands of developers who are installing and managing their own instances of MongoDB on EC2 and elsewhere that might want to offload that work, and that is exactly the story they shared at AWS Reinvent this year.
The new MongoDB Cloud Platform extends the expected secure management of database instances, cloud resources and deployment automation workloads of Atlas, with additional integration hooks and templates for building app-like functionality atop it. New data visualization and charting features for analysts, event-based capabilities, mobile-first local data stores, and a unique data lake lookup service for higher-volume data sources are just some of the items under the hood.
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