September 10, 2015

MongoDB update

One pleasure in talking with my clients at MongoDB is that few things are NDA. So let’s start with some numbers:

Also >530 staff, and I think that number is a little out of date.

MongoDB lacks many capabilities RDBMS users take for granted. MongoDB 3.2, which I gather is slated for early November, narrows that gap, but only by a little. Features include:

There’s also a closed-source database introspection tool coming, currently codenamed MongoDB Scout. 

As for storage engines:

Finally — most data management vendors brag to me about how important their text search option is, although I’m not necessarily persuaded. 🙂 MongoDB does have built-in text search, of course, of which I can say:

This level of technology was easy to get in the 1990s. One thing that’s changed in the intervening decades, however, is that text search commonly supports more languages. MongoDB offers stemming in 8 or 9 languages for free, plus a paid option via Basis for other languages yet.

Related links

Comments

6 Responses to “MongoDB update”

  1. Mark Callaghan on September 10th, 2015 11:20 am

    MongoDB lacks some features more mature SQL solutions include, and many applications require. More mature SQL solutions lack features to make sharded replica sets easy to manage. Who gets there first? This will be an interesting race.

  2. David Gruzman on September 10th, 2015 12:03 pm

    Group By, Join, BI Connectors sounds relational. It means that to benefit from all of it developers should restrict themselves to specific schema… It means that in one hand developers are stripped from “schemaless” benefits. In other hand, data, which do not match the schema, will be missing in reports…

  3. Kelly on September 10th, 2015 2:09 pm

    Hi Curt, thanks for the post.

    One small clarification – your point about the performance of validation. For any DBMS I think it is a good idea and common practice to do some amount of validation client side – you shouldn’t round trip to the DBMS if you don’t have to.

  4. Curt Monash on September 10th, 2015 10:09 pm

    Fair enough, Kelly. But it does somewhat undermine the importance of the feature. 🙂

  5. DataStax and Cassandra update | DBMS 2 : DataBase Management System Services on September 14th, 2015 2:03 am

    […] MongoDB isn’t the only company I reached out to recently for an update. Another is DataStax. I chatted mainly with Patrick McFadin, somebody with whom I’ve had strong consulting relationships at a user and vendor both. But Rachel Pedreschi contributed the marvelous phrase “twinkling dashboard”. […]

  6. clive boulton on September 22nd, 2015 12:59 am

    Reassuring MongoDB 3.2 default WiredTiger storage engine were also architects of Berkeley DB. Messrs Keith Bostic / Michael Cahill …

Leave a Reply




Feed: DBMS (database management system), DW (data warehousing), BI (business intelligence), and analytics technology Subscribe to the Monash Research feed via RSS or email:

Login

Search our blogs and white papers

Monash Research blogs

User consulting

Building a short list? Refining your strategic plan? We can help.

Vendor advisory

We tell vendors what's happening -- and, more important, what they should do about it.

Monash Research highlights

Learn about white papers, webcasts, and blog highlights, by RSS or email.