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Global Reach for MongoDB

MongoDB‘s Atlas service has been giving companies a managed database service in the cloud for some time. Mongo deals with all the heavy lifting behind the scenes, relieving the developer of creating it all themselves. Today the company announced it was taking that a step further by allowing customers to have granular control over where the data lives, with a new feature called Global Clusters.

This allows companies to choose a cloud provider, then move to any location in the world data from a MongoDB database running in Atlas. As MongoDB CTO and co-founder Eliot Horowitz explained, it doesn’t matter who the cloud provider is, you can set a data location policy, select a cloud vendor and data center location and see what the results will look like on a graphical representation of the world map. When you give the OK, Mongo moves the data automatically for you in the background without shutting anything down to do it.

Lots of countries are requiring proof of data sovereignty, including the EU’s GDPR rules that went into effect last month. It has been challenging for many businesses to comply with these kinds of rules on their own. Horowitz said he created geographic partitions before Atlas and it required a tremendous amount of engineering effort. By providing it as a service in this fashion, the company is putting this kind of data migration in the hands of the smallest business owners, giving them that geographic granularity from the start.

“They are going to see  a lot of [small businesses], who feel they can now compete with some of the larger websites and actually have that high level of service on day one, rather than having to wait to hire a team of engineers.”

The beauty of this approach from Mongo’s perspective is that they don’t even have to worry about building a worldwide data center presence of their own. Instead, they simply piggyback on the global locations of each of the main public cloud providers, AWS, Microsoft and Google.

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Features of MongoDB

• MongoDB had been gaining popularity rapidly, owing to its low cost and better performing NoSQL database offerings to enterprises. To continue to expand global reach and sales, MongoDB appointed Dev Ittycheria—a seasoned technology entrepreneur and a prominent leader of four tech IPOs—as the President and CEO in 2014. With him at the helm, MongoDB organized several local conferences and events around the world, bringing together more than 20,000 developers and IT professionals within the MongoDB community. 2015 marked one of the biggest milestones for the company with the release of MongoDB 3.0. The release included MongoDB’s highly flexible storage architecture, which dramatically expanded the set of mission-critical applications that clients could run on their servers. MongoDB 3.0 also marked the inception of new WiredTiger storage engine that delivers 7-10x greater throughput for write-intensive applications with more granular document-level concurrency control.
• MongoDB has proved its relevance across all industries and currently stands as one of the most cost-effective business enablers in the market today
• MongoDB Enterprise Advanced new automation features of Ops Manager help clients to reduce the overhead of operating large-scale MongoDB deployments by as much as 95 percent for many activities as the use of RESTful APIs allows it to be integrated into existing tooling for monitoring, backup, and management.
• The storage API opens the door for MongoDB to leverage write-optimized storage engines, improved compression and memory usage, and other aspects of cutting-edge modern database engines. Its stellar performance and scalability enhancements placed MongoDB at the forefront of the database market as the standard DBMS for modern applications.
• Initially, the majority of MongoDB’s revenue came from its subscription arm, though both its subscription and services revenue streams were growing tremendously among the start-up enterprises. However, amid that growth, MongoDB still needed the capital to ramp up its operations. Owing to several functional and operational enhancements since Ittycheria took over as the CEO, in 2017, MongoDB became a publicly traded company, listed on NASDAQ as MDB with an IPO price of $24 per share—the first database company to go public in more than 20 years.
• The company offers a plethora of as-a-service solutions that are highly optimized for the public and private cloud. MongoDB’s Backend as a Service—MongoDB Stitch— enables developers to shift their focus from managing data manipulation code, service integration, and backend infrastructures to building applications. Stitch not only provides developers with full access to the MongoDB database, but it also provides the ability to declare fine-grained data access controls, and composability with other services without having to code any backend logic.
• The MongoDB Atlas is also a cruc The solution is offered as a cloud-hosted Database as a Service which incorporates operational best practices that the company has harnessed from optimizing thousands of deployments across startups and the Fortune 100 organizations. In addition, MongoDB Cloud Manager helps clients to monitor their databases easily, automate operational tasks, and leverage cloud backups for self-managed MongoDB deployments. It saves time, money, and helps clients improve customer experience by eliminating the guesswork from running MongoDB.
• From developing the first iteration of MongoDB in the New York headquarters, MongoDB has proved its relevance across all industries and currently stands as one of the most cost-effective business enablers in the market today. The company stands as a global player, having 35 offices throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. MongoDB has more than 4,900 customers in over 85 countries, and its database platform has been downloaded over 30 million times. While positioning itself as a new type of database, the NoSQL pioneer is adding features geared for DBAs, and extending its compatibility from Amazon to Azure and Google clouds. The company is excited to launch the latest MongoDB 4.0 release in the summer of 2018, which will introduce multi-document transactions and other ACID features such as global consistency and snapshot isolation. It will combine the speed, flexibility and the efficiency of document models with the assurance of transactional integrity. As per the 4.0 product roadmap, the company has completed 85 percent of the development and is encouraging organizations and tech enthusiasts to join the beta program to test out the newly added features.