We have created a blog for the mongodb.org site.  Please add to your RSS reader: http://blog.mongodb.org/rss Going forward, blog posts which are purely about Mongo DB proper will be on blog.mongodb.org. ...

Some new notes in the documentation on how to perform operations atomically: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Atomic+Operations Comments and feedback appreciated in the forums.  

We've had this question a few times so we have posted a page on the wiki.  Feedback appreciated in the forums.

Mongo DB v0.9 is now available.  This release contains stability enhancements and a completely new and improved query optimizer. If you have been downloading the daily builds recently, this is close to what you already have.

We're happy to announce the release of the MongoDB AppEngine Connector for Python, an add-on to the Google AppEngine SDK that lets you use MongoDB as the persistent store in your Python AppEngine applications. Tested...

In addition to our driver for Ruby, we've created a connection adapter for Ruby on Rails, so you can easily use MongoDB via ActiveRecord  from within your Rails application. You can use MongoDB either alone...

I'm chairing a track with Simon Wardly on "The Open Cloud" at CloudCamp in London tonight.  If you're in the area, and there are any tickets left (they're free, but so far 800 people have signed up...), come...

The Mongo database is designed for store JSON-style objects.  The database understands the structure of these objects and can reach into them to evaluate query expressions. Let's suppose we have some objects...

Query optimization is an interesting and hard problem.  Looking at traditional approaches (which tend to be cost-based and statistical), we weren't happy with the results.  Traditional optimizers have...

Some Mongo DB developers are using the database as a way to track real time performance metrics for their websites (page views, uniques, etc.)  Tools like Google Analytics are great but not real-time -- sometimes...

Please join us for our first hackathon/bootcamp of the year, focusing on the MongoDB database.  We'll talk about: The new distribution The new V8-based command-line JavaScript shell and other tools The...

Elias Torres just uploaded the first version of his Erlang driver for MongoDB to github. Give it a look.

We've been working for a while on our PHP driver for MongoDB, and while it's not completely finished yet, we thought we'd let people know where they can find the code and the documentation. Code : http://github...

We are finding that the Mongo DB can be useful for caching applications.  Its orientation towards performance over features (e.g., no full transactions),  document data model, and use of memory-mapped...

A standalone beta release of the Mongo database is now available.  This release includes drivers for C++, Java, Python and Ruby, with others coming soon. See the downloads page for more information, and the...

A beta release of the Mongo database will be available February 11th.  This release includes drivers for C++, Java, Python and Ruby. Please see the database roadmap for more information.

In 2008 we made a lot of progress on the 10gen platform, which consists of the Babble cloud runtime environment and the Mongo database.  Much work on all fronts - the management system, the load balancer, the...

We'll have something new and interesting to talk about :)  

Just a reminder - next week is another 10gen Bootcamp and Hackathon at the 10gen offices at 40 W. 20th Street, 6th Floor, NY, NY on Thursday, December 18, 2008. Depending on attendee interest, we can cover Overview...

The Mongo database provides replication services.  This capability is important: in a cloud, the failure of an individual machine should be a non-event.  The details below are transparent to the cloud...