Relational databases store information in strictly regulated tables and columns. MongoDB is a document store, which stores information in collections and documents. The primary difference here is that ...

Since 2007, MongoDB has amassed millions of users of its document-based database, as workload shifts to the cloud has accelerated data collection growth as a whole and thus the need for architectures ...

In December 2019, popular document database MongoDB added a fairly radical new feature to the platform: field-level database encryption. At first glance, one might wonder whether this is a meaningful ...

The “data lake” concept became popular following the explosion of interest in big data and Hadoop. The data lake was seen as a modern and more efficient alternative to the enterprise data warehouse ...

MongoDB co-founder and former CTO Eliot Horowitz reflects on the creation of MongoDB and his 13 years with the company It takes a certain amount of chutzpah — OK, mountains of it — to invent a new ...

MongoDB, the company behind the eponymous open source database, is launching Atlas today, its third major revenue-generating service. Atlas is MongoDB’s database-as-a-service offering that provides ...

MongoDB draws attention as cloud database demand, earnings outlook, and software growth trends strengthen its market ...

The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between the cloud giant and the company behind that open-source project.