DocumentDB started as a Postgres add-on before evolving into a standalone project The Linux Foundation’s adoption signals a new era for open document databases MongoDB’s restrictive licensing ...

MongoDB Inc.’s document database uses a flexible schema approach, which is popular with development teams using agile methodologies, according to Ian Massingham (pictured), vice president of ...

MongoDB is a document-oriented database that accelerates applications’ development timeframe. Compared with traditional SQL databases, MongoDB allows developers to store data in a more flexible ...

The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document ...

Holger Mueller of Constellation Research Inc. told SiliconANGLE that Atlas is the gift that keeps on giving for MongoDB, ...

MongoDB is an open-source document-oriented database, not a traditional relational database, written in C++ by Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz. Being a document database does not mean storing ...

AWS just released their 10th database service (15th, if you count each engine offered in the relational database services). This one, called Amazon DocumentDB, stores semi-structured data inside a ...

Internet services such as Foursquare, Bit.ly and SourceForge use the document-oriented data store, as 10Gen calls MongoDB. “The relational model isn’t for everybody.

MongoDB is a document-oriented database. It is a cross-platform database that holds data in documents in a binary-encoded JSON format (known as binary JSON, or BSON).