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How 10Gen Is Pulling Engineers from Wall Street to Become an Anchor of NYC Tech

September 3, 2012 -- Pando Daily

No one’s ever accused New York City of being soft. But New York tech, on the other hand, has gotten that rep. All too often, the city’s startups have been built on the shoulders of technology developed on the West Coast...

But what about honest-to-goodness NY tech companies? As the West Coast tech giants descend, one of New York’s most “hardcore” tech startups is quickly sopping up as much engineering talent as it can...

10Gen is the developer of open source database system MongoDB, and is often held up as a counter-example to criticisms that New York startups are a bunch of design-heavy consumer Internet apps. It’s basically the only pure tech startup in the city.

MongoDB 2.2 Bids To Become The "Developer's Database"

August 31, 2012 -- Dr. Dobb's

The MongoDB document-oriented NoSQL database has reached version 2.2, with a set of new enhancements including an advanced aggregation framework and new multi-datacenter deployment features.

Bidding hard to try and become the application developer's database of choice, MongoDB maker 10gen emphasizes the real-time analytics and reporting functions of the aggregation framework and the multi-datacenter flexibility as key benefits for developing at scale.

Networks And The Enterprise

August 30, 2012 -- Business Insider

Many think that USV is a consumer web investor. We don't think of ourselves that way. We invest in networks and for most of our short history, that has meant investing in networks of individuals connecting with each other. Thus the consumer web investor moniker.

I like to think that our first foray into this kind of network was 10gen, the company behind MongoDB. MongoDB is an open source datastore for web scale applications. The first users were developers who wanted a simple, easy to get started datastore. It was perfect for hackathons and such where the developer needed to get something up quickly. This post I read yesterday does a good job of explaining why MongoDB took off. These developers became a network of users and contributors to the open source project. Many of them worked in enterprises and brought MongoDB into their teams. Soon enough 10gen started getting calls from executives saying something like "I just learned that we have 50 instances of MongoDB in production and I'm eager to get a support contract". That's where the enterprises joined the network.

Open source MongoDB gets richer query commands

August 30, 2012 -- Computerworld

In an effort to improve how MongoDB supplies its data to external applications, MongoDB keeper 10gen has extended the open source data store's query language, providing developers with more sophisticated ways to extract and transform data.

New MongoDB release steps up speed, replication

August 29, 2012 -- ITWorld

While big data tools like Hadoop are usually used in conjunction with existing relational database systems, 10gen is working towards a loftier goal: getting its NoSQL database MongoDB to replace instances of relational databases.

The latest release of MongoDB has hit the proverbial shelves today, and version 2.2 is bringing a lot of new features under the hood that are geared towards speeding up the performance of 10gen's database that's made a big mark on the big data scene.

NoSQL Pioneer MongoDB Doubles Down on the Data Center

August 29, 2012 -- WIRED

MongoDB was created to help companies build databases that can span hundreds of servers in multiple data centers. But as the open source “NoSQL” database system caught on with developers, its sponsor company, 10gen, wound up focusing more on making life easier for programmers than trying to make data center operations staff happy.

Now, the company is trying to reverse that trend, starting with the release of MongoDB 2.2. With the new database — unveiled on Wednesday — it hopes to ratchet up the competition with an increasingly crowded market for NoSQL databases, which promise to reinvent the way we store online.

MongoDB Upgrade Fills NoSQL Analytics Void

August 29, 2012 -- InformationWeek

10gen, the company behind the fast-growing MongoDB database, on Wednesday announced the general availability of a highly anticipated upgrade that promises easier analytic querying of a NoSQL database best known for speedy transactional performance.

The new release, MongoDB 2.2, is the production-ready result of a 2.1 developers' preview that has been beta tested by the MongoDB community since January. Key upgrades include a new real-time aggregation framework, new sharding and replication features for multi-data-center deployments, and improved performance and database concurrency for high-scale deployments.

Secrets of Venture Capitalists

August 24, 2012 -- CNBC

There is no game with higher financial stakes than the one venture capitalists play every day...Flybridge's Bussgang, meanwhile, says he looks for someone who has a demonstrable ace up their sleeve...For example, one of the group's portfolio companies — 10Gen (which specializes in open source databases — was founded by the architect of DoubleClick's ad serving infrastructure. That gave the company an advantage in quickly finding employees and customers.

White House open sources “We the People” petition app

August 23, 2012 -- GigaOM

If you want to design a petition for your town government, group or agency, you can now download the source code for the White House’s “We The People” online petition application from GitHub and tweak it for your own use...The application uses Drupal, the open source content management system, MySQL, MongoDB and PHP, and the code is covered under the GNU General Public License.

Q&A with Steve Francia

August 15, 2012 -- Virtual Strategy Magazine

VSM: Before we begin, can you tell us about MongoDB?

SF: MongoDB is an open-source NoSQL or non-relational database. Unlike relational databases, a record in MongoDB is modeled after a programming object so it maps really well to modern object oriented programming like Java, Ruby, .net and PHP. 10gen began developing MongoDB in 2007 and it’s grown quite a bit since then.

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