Company
Date Published
Author
Mat Keep
Word count
1176
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

MongoDB is designed to provide operational intelligence by offering a fully-featured database that serves as a System of Record for online applications. It can handle millisecond latency query responsiveness, random access to indexed subsets of data, expressive ad-hoc queries and aggregations, fast-changing data updates in real time, and brings together operational and analytical processing across high volumes of variably structured data. MongoDB provides workload isolation, dynamic schema with data governance, expressive queries, rich secondary indexes, BI & analytics integration, robust security controls, scale-out on commodity hardware, advanced management and cloud platform, and high skills availability. It enables developers to converge analytics of both real-time, rapidly changing data sets with batch Hadoop jobs using distributed processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, MapReduce and Hive.