10gen: Growing the MongoDB world by Dj Walker-Morgan.
From the post:
10gen, the company set up by the creators of the open source NoSQL database MongoDB, has been on a roll recently, creating business partnerships with numerous companies, making it a hot commercial proposition without creating any apparent friction with its open source community. So what has brought MongoDB to the fore?
One factor has been how easy it is to get up and running with the database, a feature that the company wants to actively maintain. 10gen president Max Schireson explained: “I think that it’s honestly a combination of the functionality of MongoDB itself, but also the effort that we’ve invested in packaging for the open source community. I see some open source companies taking the approach of ‘oh yeah the code’s open source but you’ll need a PhD to actually get a working build of it unless you are a subscriber’. While that might help monetisation, that’s not a way to build a big community”.
Schireson says the company isn’t going stand still though: although it’s easy to get a single node up and running, over time they want to make it easier to get more complex, sharded, implementations configured and deployed. “As people use more and more functionality, that of necessity brings in more complexity, we’re looking for ways to make that easier,” he says, pointing to the cluster manager being developed as a native part of MongoDB, which should make it easier to manage and upgrade clusters.
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