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 ...

Document databases such as MongoDB garnered rapid and strong support from application developers for multiple reasons. But clearly, one of those reasons is the support for flexible schemas. In the ...

The NoSQL movement has spawned a slew of alternative data stores, all of which attempt to fill voids left by traditional relational database implementations. But while it’s easy to fit the various ...

While you were sleeping, 10Gen — the company behind the MongoDB document database — changed its name to MongoDB, Inc., raised $231 million, and became the first billion-dollar open source startup.

It’s been a while since MongoDB has felt threatened by another document database vendor. Historically, the closest contender for document database dominance was Couchbase, the offspring of the ...