MongoDB targets ‘massive’ revenue stream with new cloud-based management service

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.

NoSQL database vendor MongoDB has rolled out new features of its MongoDB Management Service, or MMS, that it claims will vastly improve users’ abilities to manage and scale the popular database. If even a fraction of its users pay for the service, MongoDB thinks MMS also stands to make the company a lot of money.

The new features, which MongoDB Director of Products Kelly Stirman calls a “massive set of enhancements,” will let users deploy, upgrade and scale their databases all with a few clicks from inside the cloud service, wherever those databases are running. MMS will also automatically optimize Amazon Web Services instances when users deploy MongoDB servers on that cloud computing platform. MMS has been around for years, but previously could only be used to backup data and monitor users’ database clusters…

Addressing long-standing claims that MongoDB doesn’t scale very well, Stirman said it can scale just fine and there are plenty of examples of users running rather large deployments. “But,” he acknowledged, “the truth has always been that it’s hard to do. It takes a lot of work and a lot of expertise.” The new MMS should fix that problem, he added…

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