Today MongoDB has seen a new big release, 2.4. Between the features that have been added we can see hash-based sharding, capped arrays, and a brand new Text Search feature.
Moreover, MongoDB will now have an Enteprise edition, containing for example monitoring and alerting options; role-based authentication for clusters and servers administrators; support for the Kerberos protocol in authenticating connection.
There's a 30-year-old relational database up on blocks at Carfax's Columbia, Mo., office. On Tuesday, the Web service, which supplies used-vehicle history reports to millions of consumers and 30,000 dealerships every year, announced plans to retire its VMS-based RDBMS and switch to MongoDB, the open source, document-oriented database developed and supported by 10gen.
When it takes over the driver's seat, the MongoDB will run across 50 servers. Lenz declined to name the hardware vendor. But 10gen CEO Max Schireson told InformationWeek on the phone: "Using inexpensive commodity servers means they can scale out," Schireson said.
While an open source product, 10gen claims some 500 customers worldwide who pay for its consulting and services. This customer list includes marquee Web brands like eBay and Craigslist, but traditional businesses as well, including three of the top 10 global banks and telcos, among others.
Another advantage of using MongoDB is its built-in redundancy. If a node fails, work is picked up by one or more secondary nodes.
In fact, Carfax already uses a seven-node VMS system. However, Lenz shared that in early performance testing, MongoDB ran transactions up to four times faster. But speed and cost savings weren't the only reasons Carfax decided to migrate to a noSQL architecture.
Unlike their relational predecessors, noSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra and Riak use a flexible, schema-less design that is especially well suited for massive amounts of variable data.
"Mongo does [transaction processing] with the added benefit of analytics and data mining," he said. "The sky's the limit... we're just scratching the surface."
If it seems like a stretch for companies, or trade groups, to decide to create their own custom content, it's already happening. For one, the resources needed tend to be already in place at companies. For another, EdX is an open-source platform. Anybody can use it to build a course.
One company already has. 10gen, which provides commercial services for MongoDB, an open-source database tool, launched two courses of its own last year using EdX's platform. 10gen hosted an instance of EdX's software on Amazon Web Services as the host; students log in to it on the 10gen site, and 10gen does all the promotional work for it.
Rackspace this morning announced it had acquired ObjectRocket, a Boston-based firm that offers hosted MongoDB as a service. The buy brings the popular NoSQL database into Rackspace's fold, potentially as a service deployable within its own cloud offerings.
Today, 10gen and MongoDB are leading the charge of the NoSQL revolution. To that end, MongoDB itself has evolved significantly since its creation and is now one of the most popular schema-less data stores in the NoSQL pack, according to the 451 Group.
Databases and the information in them used to be simple, but not any more. Not all data fits into neat spreadsheets and SQL databases. Hence, the rise of NoSQL databases to handle this mass of unstructured data.
Rackspace, the public cloud and managed hosting provider, wants users to put their unstructured data on its servers. So, today the company announced the purchase of ObjectRocket, a company specializing in MongoDB open source NoSQL databases.
Cloud-computing giant Rackspace has made a small but smart acquisition in ObjectRocket, a MongoDB database service. Database technology floods the market, but Matthews said that MongoDB has experienced a “runaway success” with developers. It’s easy to get started and supports about a dozen programming language on the Web, including C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Node.js, and Scala.
NoSQL databases are hot and MongoDB may be the hottest of the NoSQL databases, which is why Rackspace is buying ObjectRocket and its MongoDB expertise.
“Mongo is breaking away from the pack and our customers are asking for it,” said Pat Matthews, SVP of corporate development for Rackspace, San Antonio, Texas. He said the company could have built its own version of the open-source database or partnered with a MongoDB provider — but was impressed with the expertise of the ObjectRocket co-founders Chris Lalonde, Erik Beebe and Kenny Gorman who between them spent years at Ebay, Paypal, Shutterfly and AOL.
Rackspace is acquiring ObjectRocket, which allows customers to use the MongoDB database through the cloud, it announced on Wednesday...MongoDB is a scalable, open-source NoSQL database that stores structured data as JSON-like documents so that it can be integrated into documents and applications easier and faster than it can be from relational databases.
Today is the NoSQL installment of the February job trends. For the NoSQL job trends, I am continuing to focus on Cassandra, Redis, Voldemort, SimpleDB, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, and Riak. As was stated previously, Hadoop continues to be the clear leader in demand and still flattens the trends of other solutions. However, the gap is steadily shrinking and Hadoop could be included in the near future.
MongoDB continues to lead the pack since the beginning of 2011.
Venture capitalists invested over $600 million in the largest local deals in 2012. Industries ranged from e-commerce to pharmaceuticals. Here are New York City's largest venture capital deals.
