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MongoDB's AGPL license prevented AWS from offering it as a managed service
“It's an open source license, it's a free software foundation approved license, but it's the AGPL, and the AGPL gives us a little bit more advantage than other players, so Amazon can't quite do the same thing that they can with, ah, MySQL as they can with, so t…”
WiredTiger storage engine made MongoDB ten times faster in version 3.0
“Wiretiger was not a little bit better than the previous storage engine. It really was a complete leapfrog. It was, you know, 10 times faster.”
Horowitz: MongoDB's key innovation was enabling indexing and searching inside documents
“The key thing that we did is, you know, you can always just store everything about a person in a single cell in a relational database. The thing that we did that was interesting was let you actually index on it and search on it and modify it in sort of very sm…”
Horowitz: Many database customers want to be cloud-agnostic
“A lot of people we talk to want to be cloud agnostic, right? They want to have a service that lets them run wherever they are.”
Horowitz: MongoDB has grown to around 550 employees in 2016
“The employees are about 550 employees now this year.”
SourceForge ported its entire platform to MongoDB prior to version 1.0
“About four months after we launched SourceForge decided to port their entire platform to MongoDB, which was sort of a crazy move. I mean, this was in 2009, so it's been a while. But they ported the entire platform to MongoDB prior to MongoDB one point oh.”
Horowitz: MongoDB 3.2 introduced join support via $lookup operator
“In three, two, we added a join operator. We call it dollar lookup, but it's fundamentally the same thing as a join, to sort of let you do some of the workloads you would take from a relational database.”
Horowitz: MongoDB saw a huge amount of Azure adoption over the past year
“What we see is a lot of, ah, a huge amount of Azure adoption in the last year.”
Horowitz discovered SourceForge's 2009 database migration through a blog post
“So, we learned about it from their blog post, and we were very worried that it was not gonna work. Yeah, it was completely, we had no idea. We had not talked to any of them before it launched.”
MongoDB launched its standalone database in 2009 after pivoting from PaaS
“We were, ah, eight people at that point, and we realized that This was way too big of a space for us to take on, and decided that the database was the most interesting part of the platform, and so then in February of 2009 was the first version of MongoDB that …”