The 10gen Blog on MongoDB and NoSQL

Mobilize Your MongoDB: Building MongoDB Mobile Apps with OpenShift PaaS

Tue, 15 May 2012 01:01:00 -0400

This is the first in a 4-part series by Grant Shipley, Cloud Evangelist for Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform-as-a-service. Grant’s series will cover the development of “Beershift”, a mobile app for iPhone and Android built using Titanium, OpenShift and MongoDB. MongoDB makes a great companion to this mobile application given its ability to shard store JSON documents with little data manipulation required. In this blog post, we will go over the background of the application and discuss the features we plan to build.

Background:

I started developing iOS based applications shortly after the arrival of the iPhone on the market. Having been a Java and PHP developer for my entire career, switching to objective-c was a tough challenge for me. I had to remember basic programming methodologies and patterns that I haven’t used since college.

It took me nearly two months of work at the cadence of 30-40 hours per week to build my first iOS application. To my delight, after releasing the application, the market for the application was larger that I had anticipated. Users were writing great reviews and requesting more features.

Shortly after releasing my first iOS based application, Google decided to enter the smartphone market with their android based sdk and devices. This should have been great news for most software developers but for me, a part time mobile developer, it wasn’t. I now had users requesting my application for android devices as well as for the new iPad and other tablets that were hitting the market. I didn’t have the free time to port my application to the android sdk as it would have required another two months of software development as well as maintaining two separate code streams for patches and updates.

About 8 months ago, I heard about a company called Appcelerator and their Titanium SDK. This SDK would allow me to code using javascript but target native UI controls for an array of devices. This sounded like heaven as most of the applications that I write are productivity or novelty based applications that don’t rely heavily on 3D graphics. I set out to learn the titanium SDK and was able to develop the BeerShift sample application over a period of two days.

About BeerShift:

At OpenShift, we enjoy local craft beers and the social aspects of having a pint while discussing the latest trends in software development and deployment. One night, over a pint, we thought it would be cool if we could quickly read a description of the beer and brewery before ordering. We kept discussing the app and of course feature creep started setting in. By the end of the night, we decided to develop a mobile-based application that would allow a user to search for beers, and then log when and where they drank it. Because the team was split between using iOS and Android based phones, we needed it to work on both devices and sync the information via a backend service. Of course, all of this had to be available via the web as well.

This was a great opportunity for me to learn Titanium so I set out to develop the application. The biggest unknown was where to get a freely available database of beers that I could search. I researched this question and did some google searching but didn’t really come up with any providers that met my needs. Luckily, while speaking at a PHP Users Group in Raleigh, NC, I met a couple of guys who owned a startup called brewerydb.com. With their growing repository of beers and breweries, it had all of the information that I needed in order to develop the sample app. I invited them out for a pint after the user group and we discussed the details. A few days later I had an API key and was ready to get my Titanium Javascript on.

Want a quick preview of what we will be building? Check out the video showing the application.

BeerShift has a tabbed based UI that consists for 4 main screens. Drink, Drank, Kegstand, and Settings.

The settings tab presents the user with username and password input fields. If the username does not exist in the MongoDB database, the user will be prompted if they want to create a new user.

The drink tab is the heart of the application. This tab allows the uses to enter in a beer name and will return a result of all beers and breweries that match the search string. The results are retrieved via a REST API call to the openshift server and presented to the user in a table view. The user can select a a beer from the list and then select to “Drink It”.

Once the user has decided to log drinking a beer, the drinking event will be recorded on both the drank tab and the keg stand tab.

The keg stand tab will allow the user of the application to view the 50 most recent beers drank by any user of the application.

In the next blog post of this series, I will detail the installation of applications and tools needed to begin with development of the BeerShift application.

Source Code:

All of the source code for this application, including the backend REST API and MongoDB integration, is available on github.com/gshipley

This Week in MongoDB: May 14-20

Mon, 14 May 2012 01:44:00 -0400

Hey everyone. Here’s what’s going on in the MongoDB world.

News

Know some MongoDB ninjas? We’re accepting more Masters into our MongoDB Masters program for stellar MongoDB contributors, evangelists and community members. Submit your nominations here by June 15
Open Source Hack Contest: Submit your open source hack by May 31 and enter for a chance to win a free ticket to OSCON. Check out the guidelines and submit here.

Webinars

May 15: Building your First Application with MongoDB
May 17: MongoDB on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
May 24: Building Web Services with MongoDB, Node.js and OpenShift

Learn More

MongoDB and OpenStreetMap: A Podcast interview with PHP core contributor, PHP Driver maintainer and OpenStreetMap contributor Derick Rethans on the EngineYard developer center
An introductory post on using MongoDB with Node.js, in Danish!
MongoDB Performance at Scale, a presentation by David Mytton, Server Density
MongoDB Schema Design: Insights and Tradeoffs, a presentation by Montse Medina from MongoSF

Upcoming MongoDB Events

May 14: Oslo Community Workshops with Brendan McAdams
May 15: MongoDB Pittsburgh
May 15: NoSQL and Big Data: Scaling the Enterprise in the New Age; with Max Schireson. Hosted by the Stanford/MIT VLab.
May 16: HackNY Fundraiser at foursquare HQ
May 22: MongoNYC Training Workshops
May 23: The Third Annual MongoNYC
May 24: Reinventing the Database, Max Schireson at Glue Conf
May 25: Intro to MongoDB at FLOSSIE Conf UK

huMONGOus things from Github:

Mongo-Express: Web-based MongoDB admin interface, written with Node.js and express
Speakeasy: File sharing for the paranoid

Other Reading:

Linux History
Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms

Got some MongoDB news you’d like to share in the next update? Send it over!

MongoDB in London

Sun, 13 May 2012 22:29:04 -0400

This is a guest post by James Chesters, Community Manager for Skills Matter

MongoDB blew through London last week like an Oxfordshire twister — bringing talks and a practical tutorial to the community. Skills Matter’s Progressive NOSQL Tutorials offered three days of NOSQL talks and hands-on workshops, and wearing the MongoDB mantle was 10gen’s own Chris Harris, along with David Mytton of Server Density.

Chris Harris presented on MongoDB and Document Databases, answering burning questions like “What is a document database?” “Why was MongoDB created?” and “Why did they call it that?” before moving on to schema design, JSON and how MongoDB can scale with your application needs.

You can watch the full video on the Skills Matter site.

David Mytton — founder of Server Density and an organiser of the popular London MongoDB User Group — presented on MongoDB performance at scale. David discussed important deployment considerations, including how to scale reads and writes, bottlenecks (and how to resolve them) and how to deploy redundantly across clusters of machines. You can watch the full video here.

On top of the talks, Chris Harris also delivered a shining and practical MongoDB tutorial, walking through how one can building a simple location-based checkin application using MongoDB. Check it out here.

MongoDB UK: June 20th The MongoDB community in London continues to gather momentum — and you should become a part of it! MongoDB UK comes to the capital on June 20th — and we want to hear your MongoDB experiences: submit a proposal by tomorrow, May 15th, or enjoy the talks as an attendee, and get your early bird ticket. Early bird prices end today, so take advantage of the reduced prices before it’s too late!

MongoDB UK this year will feature 5 tracks, featuring the excellent talks from 10gen engineers and MongoDB community that you’ve come to expect — and this year there is the added opportunity to book a slot to talk to the 10gen experts. Just sign up before the conference to get a 15-minute slot with a 10gen team member.

London MongoDB User Group: May 29th Have you joined the London MongoDB User Group yet? The next meeting is May 29th at the shiny new Google Campus in Shoreditch — and will feature lightning talks on a variety of topics. This is your chance to share in a friendly and supportive community your MongoDB project, or you can talk for a few minutes about something you have learned using MongoDB.

Come join the fun: RSVP here, and let us know if you’d like to give a lightning talk!

5 Steps to Prepare for MongoNYC

Thu, 10 May 2012 20:48:00 -0400

With just two weeks to go, MongoNYC is coming up fast. With four tracks and over 50 sessions, you’ll have a lot to choose from at the event. Here are some tips to help you get prepared—and excited—for the event on May 23rd.

1. Schedule an “Ask the Experts” Session

MongoDB days are an excellent opportunity to speak with MongoDB’s core contributors who remain the foremost experts on the database. At MongoNYC, we’ll be hosting “Ask the Experts” sessions to offer you specialized, 15 minute sessions with 10gen’s engineers. Spots are limited so sign up now before the conference. Email jackie@10gen.com to reserve your slot.

2. Sign up for a seat in the Build an IRC Service with MongoDB

Reserve your seat now for this this interactive session. You can follow along as 10gen’s CTO and co-founder, Eliot Horowitz, walks you through building an IRC service using MongoDB. This is a half-day track the morning of MongoNYC and is a great opportunity to learn about important concepts in MongoDB. Attendees who pre-register for this session will get a reserved seat at a table with power supply. Email us to reserve your seat.

3. Download GuideBook App

MongoNYC has gone mobile!Using Guidebook App, you can view the MongoNYC schedule, maps, twitter, alerts, more on your iPhone/Android. Visit the MongoNYC Guidebook page to download the app.

4. Review the agenda and plan your day

With multiple tracks and 40+ sessions, there is a lot to experience at MongoNYC. Don’t wait until you are sitting in the audience at the keynote to look at the agenda. Plan your day now. Get the most out of the conference sessions and networking opportunities. Most importantly, make sure to leave time for the after-party.

MongoNYC Agenda

5. Update your social network

Now that you know what you are doing on the 23rd, let your friends know too. Find your friends and make new ones with Qrious. Tweet about your attendance using the #mongonyc hashtag, add the MongoNYC event to your LinkedIn profile, and don’t forget to check-in on foursquare while you’re there!

Enjoy your day at MongoNYC! If you haven’t signed up yet, get your tickets now.

Supporting HackNY: Internet Week Fundraiser and MongoNYC

Thu, 10 May 2012 09:50:00 -0400

In April, 10gen pledged $1 for every MongoNYC ticket sold to HackNY to help further its mission of bringing tech talent in New York City. To amplify our contribution to HackNY, 10gen along with the Prince Building Tech Talks, will be hosting a fundraiser for HackNY at foursquare on Thursday May 16. At the event, we will host future HackNY fellows and celebrate New York City tech. It’s not too late to sign up and show your commitment to New York City tech.

MongoSF '12 Recap

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:09:26 -0400

This past Friday, 10gen hosted the 3rd annual MongoSF at the Mission Bay Conference Center. MongoSF featured over 1,000 attendees and over 50 presentations from 10gen engineers and production users such as Stripe, Github, Jetlore, eBay, Wordnik, and Craigslist.

10gen CEO and MongoDB core contributor Dwight Merriman greeted the crowd for the opening Keynote and offered a session on MongoDB 2.2 internals.

Thanks to our partners Joyent, Red Hat’s OpenShift, Ubuntu from Canonical, CloudFoundry, MongoHQ, MongoLab, Virident, Zuberance, Appfog, RightScale and Bizo for their continual support and great presence at MongoSF.

We look forward to seeing you next year at MongoSF 2013. All presentations and videos are available on the 10gen site.

This Week in MongoDB: May 7- 13

Mon, 07 May 2012 01:07:43 -0400

Hey everyone. Here’s what’s going on in the MongoDB world.

News

10gen hosted the third annual MongoSF this past Friday, May 4th. Check out the presentations and videos online.
Our partners at Canonical released Ubuntu 12.04 equipped with better support for MongoDB
Jeff Yemin, Engineering Manager at 10gen, will be speaking about MongoDB at the Emerging Business Tech User Group in Cambridge this Wednesday, May 9th.
May 9-10: Chris Harris will be speaking at the Progressive NoSQL tutorials in London

Webinars

May 10: MongoDB’s Aggregation Framework
May 15: Building your First Application with MongoDB

MongoDB Events Next Week

May 14: Oslo Community Workshops with Brendan McAdams
May 15: MongoDB Pittsburgh
NoSQL and Big Data: Scaling the Enterprise in the New Age; with Max Schireson. Hosted by the Stanford/MIT VLab.

MongoDB Reading

What’s new in Mongoose 2.x by Aaron Heckmann
Python’s Swap is not Atomic, by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Got some MongoDB news you’d like to share in the next update? Send it over!

Guest Post: Ubutnu Release 12.04 - MongoDB and Juju

Tue, 01 May 2012 13:12:00 -0400

This is a guest post by Mark Baker, Product Manager, Ubuntu Server at Canonical

April sees the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This is a Long Term Support Release, which means that support and updates will be provided free of charge for 5 years from launch. The new release will feature improved deployment of MongoDB on Ubuntu.

The 12.04 represents a juncture in the switch to new technologies. Since 10.04, the last LTS release, the technology world has changed enormously. Two years ago, cloud was something that people had heard about and were starting to investigate. NoSQL and Big Data technologies were known only to a small number of users. Now, however, most organisations have a strategy around making best use of both NoSQL, Big Data and the cloud, often together. Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS is a platform optimized for organisations taking advantage of these new technologies, and through our work with 10gen, we now have better internal integration of MongoDB.

This release includes many feature updates for MongoDB users, such as a 3.2 kernel, dynamic writeback throttling and I/O-less dirty throttling and reducing filesystem writeback from page reclaim to improve performance. For us the key improvement for Mongo users is in the deployment and management of Mongo on Ubuntu. Deploying and managing replica sets, either on server or in cloud, are now easier than ever, thanks to a service orchestration tool called Juju.

Juju uses config files called a charms and we have worked with 10gen to create an example charm for Mongo deployment. The example is a bash script, but it can could be written in pretty much any language that can be interpreted by Ubuntu. You can even use your Puppet or Chef syntax if you like. Take a look at the sample charm using the Charm Browser. If you are deploying Mongo, we really believe that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is the best platform for you. Go ahead, give it a go.

-Mark Baker

10gen’s NoSQL Leadership Continues to Capture Influencer Attention

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:20:00 -0400

We’re excited to announce that 10gen has been profiled in Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Information Infrastructure and Big Data, 2012 report” (April 2012).

This year’s report, authored by analysts Merv Adrian, Donald Feinberg and W. Roy Schulte, draws attention to the key emerging vendors in information infrastructure who are tackling various aspects of “big data”. Gartner identifies MongoDB’s high-performance features as the right solution for “CIOs, IT architects, and developers looking for agile development and flexible schema design that enhances developer productivity”.

10gen President Max Scherison comments: “We consider our inclusion in the Cool Vendor report by Gartner confirmation of our mission to provide cutting edge NoSQL database technology to customers developing innovative large-scale applications and performing real-time ‘big data analytics.’”

According to Gartner, NoSQL databases continue to be valuable for organizations looking to scale out cloud and on premise uses of numerous content types. Merv Adrian praises MongoDB for its unique feature set, including flexible schema, full consistency, ‘no-downtime auto-sharding’, replica sets, and more.

For more information read the full press release. We will be posting Gartner’s Cool Vendor report within the next week.

Open Source Hack Contest: Win a Free Ticket to OSCON

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:24:00 -0400

Some of the most impressive MongoDB products have come from the open source community. Projects like the Node.js Driver, Mongoose and Mongoengine have become the backbone to many MongoDB apps in production and have helped support the developer community all over the world, and we want to see more!

For the month of May, we’ll be hosting a world-wide hack contest for Open Source tools built on or connected to MongoDB. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting our wishlist for potential MongoDB projects and additional patches and contributions. The winner of the contest receive a ticket to OSCON, furnished by O’Reilly.

Guidelines:

All projects must be built with the MongoDB source code or on top of a MongoDB API (either community or 10gen supported drivers)
Any new drivers created should abide by the existing driver requirements listed on the docs

Get creative! All entries can be submitted through our webform.

Hack on Ruby and Drupal at MongoSF

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:00:34 -0400

After a full day of MongoDB, who doesn’t love a night of hacking? This year at the third annual MongoSF, 10gen engineers, along with members of the MongoDB community, will host hacking sessions for Ruby and Drupal integration with MongoDB.

Our Drupal mastermind will be Karoly Negyesi, one of the core maintainers of Drupal who has been supporting MongoDB integration into Drupal’s core platform. Our Ruby session will be supported by Tyler Brock, 10gen engineer and maintainer of the MongoDB Ruby Driver, and Bernerd Schaefer creator and maintainer of Moped, a community-supported MongoDB Driver for Ruby.

Our hack sessions will be open to all attendees of MongoSF and will start at the conference’s close at 5PM. Each section will meet and vote on a particular project to work on in the 2.5 hours allotted.

Excited? We are too! Get your tickets to MongoSF and let the hacking begin.

Have an awesome idea you just can’t keep to yourself? Let us know!

MongoSF will be held on May 4th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.

Big Cloud and Big Data at Structure San Francisco

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:43:00 -0400

GigaOM presents the 5th annual Structure conference, June 20-21 in San Francisco, bringing together the leaders innovating, shaping and defining the ongoing cloud computing evolution, including a number of our technology partners, appfog, Joyent, and Amazon.

The shift to the cloud isn’t just a change the way IT is organized and delivered, but is also the impetus for a new way of building chips, servers, networking and the other building blocks of the computing industry. The cloud allows us to think and do things never before possible. Find out how the cloud is affecting the way you work and do business around the world.

Featured speakers include:
Lucas Carlson, CEO, Appfog
Tate Cantrell, CTO, Verne Global
Jason Hoffman, Founder and CTO, Joyent
Solomon Hykes, Co-Founder and CEO, dotCloud
Luke Kanies, CEO, Puppet Labs
Joshua McKenty, CEO, Piston Cloud Computing
Manoj Saxena, GM, IBM Watson Solutions
Werner Vogels, CTO and VP, Amazon
Joe Weinman, SVP, Telx

New speakers are being added weekly, and you can see the full list here.

Over two days, GigaOM’s workshops and in-depth discussions will provide you access to the people and information you need to learn about the technologies that are powering the rise of cloud computing, internet infrastructure and big data applications.

We hope you can make it to the event in San Francisco, June 20-21 as a follow-up to MongoSF, on May 4th!

Building a MongoDB-Powered Chat Server

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:36:00 -0400

At MongoSF (May 4), MongoNYC (May 23), and MongoDB UK (June 20), we are pleased to announce a new, interactive track led by 10gen CTO and Co-Founder Eliot Horowitz. In a series of presentations, Eliot will walk attendees through building a MongoDB-powered chat server. This track will cover:

Schema design and prototype deployment in the cloud
Monitoring using MMS, setting up backups, and operating a restore
Setting up replication for robustness — without any downtime
Schema design for scaling users
Using capped collections
Sharding for write scalability, including the selection of a shard key

Whether you are an experienced MongoDB user or you are building your first app, this track is a great way to learn about important concepts in MongoDB. We expect that this deep-dive will better illustrate schema design trade-offs, scaling, and operations.

MongoDB Philly Recap

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:24:00 -0400

On Monday night, 10gen hosted MongoDB Philly, a free evening event dedicated to learning the basics of MongoDB. The event kicked off Philly ETE, Philadelphia’s largest annual tech conference, and featured talks by 10gen engineers Brandon Diamond and Brendan McAdams and community member Brandon Hilkert, co-founder of Meteeor . MongoDB Philly also coincided with the release of the MongoDB-Hadoop connector , developed by Brendan McAdams with help from 10gen engineer Mike O’Brien and a host of community contributors.

See the slides from the event:

Brandon Diamond on Building Your First Application with MongoDB
Brandon Hilkert on why Meteeor switched to MongoDB
Brendan McAdams on the MongoDB-Hadoop Connector

Upcoming Webinar: Intro to NoSQL and MongoDB

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:18:48 -0400

The database landscape is evolving as new, scalable data stores emerge. Key value stores, large columnar stores, and document-oriented databases offer a compelling alternative to the traditional relational database. By eschewing traditional assumptions upon which previous databases were built, this new class of non-relational or “NoSQL” solutions gain the ability to scale horizontally. In addition, NoSQL solutions offer interesting alternatives to the traditional relational data model.

Intro to NoSQL and MongoDB, hosted through partner Carahsoft, will be led by Will LaForest, Senior Director of 10gen Federal. Topics to be covered during the webinar include:

Origins of the NoSQL movement
An overview of the NoSQL space
Philosophy and creation of MongoDB
MongoDB system architecture
MongoDB usage examples

If you can’t attend the webinar, sign up to receive a recording via email after the live session has ended.

Announcing Pre-Production MongoDB Subscription from 10gen

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:51:00 -0400

10gen is pleased to announce the addition of a new support subscription for MongoDB users—our new Pre-production Subscription is perfect for teams building an application on MongoDB but not yet in production. The six-month subscription is designed to help get projects off to a good start and ensure their successful completion.

The Pre-production Subscription will help companies get expert support before deploying with MongoDB. Subscribers will begin with an on-boarding call with 10gen, and team members will enjoy direct access to 10gen engineers for the duration of the subscription. Once ready for production, an experienced 10gen engineer will perform a final Health Check to assess the “production readiness” of your MongoDB deployment with your team.

Pre-production subscriptions cover an unlimited number of servers, allowing your team to get support on all nodes used for development and testing for a single price. If you are ready to launch your product before your subscription ends, unused months can be rolled over into a discounted Support Subscription.

Direct access to the engineers who make MongoDB will help your team build your application quickly, effectively, and confidently. Our Pre-production Subscription will help you deploy your MongoDB application in a way that allows you to scale quickly and easily once in production. For more information or to purchase a Pre-production subscription plan, please get in touch.

MongoDB Hadoop Connector Announced

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:25:00 -0400

10gen is pleased to announce the availability of our first GA release of the MongoDB Hadoop Connector, version 1.0. This release was a long-term goal, and represents the culmination of over a year of work to bring our users a solid integration layer between their MongoDB deployments and Hadoop clusters for data processing. Available immediately, this connector supports many of the major Hadoop versions and distributions from 0.20.x and onwards.

The core feature of the Connector is to provide the ability to read MongoDB data into Hadoop MapReduce jobs, as well as writing the results of MapReduce jobs out to MongoDB. Users may choose to use MongoDB reads and writes together or separately, as best fits each use case. Our goal is to continue to build support for the components in the Hadoop ecosystem which our users find useful, based on feedback and requests.

For this initial release, we have also provided support for:

writing to MongoDB from Pig (thanks to Russell Jurney for all of his patches and improvements to this feature)
writing to MongoDB from the Flume distributed logging system
using Python to MapReduce to and from MongoDB via Hadoop Streaming.

Hadoop Streaming was one of the toughest features for the 10gen team to build. To that end, look for a more technical post on the MongoDB blog in the next week or two detailing the issues we encountered and how to utilize this feature effectively.

This release involved hard work from both the 10gen team, as well as our community. Testing, pull requests, email ideas and support tickets have all contributed to moving this product forward. One of the most important contributions was from a team of students participating in a New York University class in Information Technology Projects which is designed to have students apply their skills to real world projects. Under the guidance of Professor Evan Korth, four students worked closely with 10gen to test and improve the functionality of the Hadoop Connector. Joseph Shraibman, Sumin Xia, Priya Manda, and Rushin Shah all worked to enhance and improve support for splitting up MongoDB input data, as well as adding a number of testing improvements and consistency checks.

Thanks to the work done by the NYU team as well as improvements to the MongoDB server, the MongoDB Hadoop Connector is capable of efficiently splitting input data in a variety of situations - in both sharded and unsharded setups - to parallelize the Hadoop input as efficiently as possible for maximum performance.

In the next few months we will be working to add additional features and improvements to the Hadoop Connector including Ruby support for Streaming, Pig input support, and support for reading and writing MongoDB Backup Files for offline batch processing. As with all of our MongoDB projects, you can always monitor the roadmap, request features, and report bugs via the MongoDB Jira and let us know on the MongoDB User Forum if you have any questions.

Red Hat and 10gen: Deeper collaboration around MongoDB

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:38:31 -0400

Today, Red Hat and 10gen jointly announced a deeper collaboration around MongoDB. By combining Red Hat’s traditional strengths in operating systems and middleware with 10gen’s expertise in database technology, we’re developing a robust open source platform on which to develop and deploy your next generation of applications either in your own data centers or in the cloud.

Over the next several months, we’ll be working closely with Red Hat to optimize and integrate MongoDB with a number of Red Hat products. You can look at this effort resulting in a set of reference designs, solutions, packages and documentation for deploying high-performance, scalable and secure applications with MongoDB and Red Hat software. Our first collaboration is around a blueprint for deploying MongoDB on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which we will release shortly. We’ll follow that up with a number of additional projects around RHEL, JBoss, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), Cloud Forms, Red Hat Storage (GlusterFS), and of course continue the work we have started with OpenShift. We hope to get much involvement from the Red Hat and MongoDB communities, and any enhancements to MongoDB resulting from this work will, of course, be open sourced.

Whether you are just getting your feet wet with MongoDB and Red Hat products, or are an old hand, you can look to 10gen and Red Hat to help ensure that your next generation applications are architected on a solid open source foundation.

Next steps:

Register for MongoNYC, Support hackNY

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:30:00 -0400

The Spring 2012 hackNY student hackathon helped to introduce students from across the Northeast to the New York City tech scene, sparking creativity and innovation in a new generation of hackers. 10gen helped students get to and from the March 24-25 hackathon with wifi-enabled buses from Boston, Providence, New Haven, Philadelphia, Princeton, and New Brunswick.

It was a big weekend for all participants, but in particular for the prizewinning teams:

Xin Yang Yak, Eugene Lee , Alexander Zhao, and Kaushal Parikh (cLoudspeaker)
Jacob Andreas (Nonsense and Sensibility)
Raymond Zhong, Daniel Chyan, and Elaine Liew (Musigallery)

Video clips from throughout the weekend, as well as photos from the event, are available on Livestream.

To better support hackNY’s mission, 10gen is committed to raising funds for hackNY ahead of MongoNYC, a one-day conference dedicated to MongoDB held right in our backyard. We’ve pledged to donate $1 for every MongoNYC ticket sold, and attendees can choose to make contributions of their own either ahead of time (when you purchase your ticket) or at the event itself.

You can also support hackNY by purchasing a ticket for the Powered by MongoDB hackathon on April 27—all funds raised through ticket sales for this event go to hackNY.

Free Webinar: Common MongoDB Use Cases

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:36:50 -0400

Join us on Thursday, April 5 for the next free webinar in our series, Common MongoDB Use Cases. Hosted by Jared Rosoff, this webinar will walk listeners through real world use cases of MongoDB that take advantage of the database’s unique features—document-oriented data storage, range based partitioning, and strong consistency, among others.

The webinar will cover specific customers using MongoDB, how they implemented their solutions, and how you can build similar solutions for your own organization. Register today for one of three sessions on Thursday.