Welcome to the inaugural MongoDB Matters column, which will appear six times a year in Database Trends and Applications. Over the past 8 years, we've seen a truly once-in-a-generation explosion of new ...

Brian C. Dilley covers pitfalls, & strengths of using MongoDB ("a very approachable NoSQL solution"), and introduces MJORM. The MJORM project is an annotation free MongoDB Java ORM library. This ...

Updates announced at the company’s annual MongoDB World conference this week include new analytics capabilities, a data lake for its Atlas database as a service, and the ability to query ...

MongoDB is replacing its founding chief technology officer with a veteran who has come straight from the relational database world. Mark Porter, most recently CTO of Singapore-based Grab, a ride ...

MySQL is a simpler and cheaper relational database, but it has less capability overall. MongoDB is another animal and for many situations it yields an improvement greater than a factor of 10.

However, today MongoDB announced the general availability of their Relational Migrator, which simplifies the process of legacy relational database users moving over to MongoDB’s platform.