14.4 A Document Database System: MongoDB
MongoDB, Inc. was founded by Eliot Horowitz, Dwight Merriman, and Kevin Ryan to create a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) architecture using only open-source software components. PaaS is a cloud computing service that allows users to create applications on a computing platform without being required to provision or maintain the platform. They developed MongoDB to serve as the database system that could satisfy both the performance and flexibility needs of the platform. The name MongoDB is derived from the word “humongous.” The first version was made available in 2009, and it is estimated that by 2021 there have been 150,000,000 downloads. MongoDB is licensed as a source-available, distributed, document database ...
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