Company
Date Published
Author
Eliot Horowitz
Word count
560
Language
English
Hacker News points
4

Summary

MongoDB 3.2 is the latest release from the company, built on the back of its previous version, and it continues to make the case for MongoDB as the default database for organizations by addressing mission-critical use cases and supporting various roles within an organization. The release features a wide range of new features, including document validation, partial indexes, in-memory storage engine, encrypted storage engine, BI connector, config servers as replica sets, improved aggregation framework, geo and text indexing, file system backups, query profiler, index suggestions, and rolling index build across a replica set. Additionally, the release includes performance tuning, edge cases fixes, and some tidying up, showcasing the engineering team's ability to increase its bandwidth and make progress on multiple fronts simultaneously. The new features are accompanied by improved tools, such as mongodump and mongorestore, which can now compress, pipe, and stream data over a network.