MongoDB Challenges Traditional Databases: Iteration of Unstructured Databases Not to be Underestimated

Compared to Oracle China's layoff fiasco in the Chinese market, MongoDB, which is also a database service, seems more optimistic. "MongoDB is a favorite database for Chinese developers." Alan Chhabra, Senior Vice President of Global Channels and Asia Pacific Sales at MongoDB, declared in front of the media with a bit of confidence and pride.

Digital transformation of Chinese enterprises is entering a critical period, and while building an open, efficient, flexible, and ****enjoyable cloud computing infrastructure, database refresh is also on the agenda.

A few days ago, unstructured database platform provider MongoDB held a user conference in Shanghai, and Alan Chhabra, Senior Vice President of Global Channels and Asia-Pacific Sales at MongoDB, accepted an interview with YEEO's Enterprise Services Channel, and addressed the modification of open source protocols last year, under the different licensing mechanisms of the SSPL. licensed server software controversy, and other queries.

The essence of a database is to solve the problem of storing and managing data. Alan Chhabra said that databases that are strategic to business growth are spawning a huge market.

Among those databases with a lot of potential, those that exist in the market today are the relational traditional databases and the new non-associative databases represented by Mongo DB. Typical traditional databases are Oracle's Oracle Database, IBM's big data platforms Hadoop and Stream Computing, Microsoft's SQL Server, SAP, and EMC Greenplum.The main difference between them is that the databases are structured and unstructured.

Structured data is data that can be represented and stored using relational databases, in a two-dimensional form, stored and arranged very regularly, which is useful for operations such as querying and modifying, but is less scalable and flexible. Unstructured databases are a variety of documents, pictures, video/audio, and other data without a fixed structure, and are generally stored directly as a whole in binary data formats.

Distributed databases, graph databases, streaming databases, spatio-temporal databases, and crowdsourcing databases are currently covered in a variety of areas.

MongoDB offers more than a dozen related products, including MongoDB Atlas, a MongoDB cloud service, MongoDB Mobile, MongoDB Enterprise Edition, and MongoDB Stitch.Alan Chhabra said the offerings include open source, paid, and cloud editions. .

In October 2018, MongoDB announced that its open source license would be switched from the GNU AGPLv3 to the SSPL, and that the new license would apply to new versions of MongoDB Community Server as well as patched older versions, a move that sparked industry buzz. Based on the GNU AGPLv3 agreement, companies can use MongoDB as a public **** service but this requires companies to open source their own software or obtain a commercial license for MongoDB, the fact is that MongoDB found that many companies are in violation of the agreement "crazy try" or even already violated the agreement. The SSPL (Server Side Public License), which, as the name implies, requires users to obtain a server-side public license, is an agreement that further constrains commercial companies from using MongoDB services.

Alan Chhabra explained to Euromonitor that SSPL is aimed at cloud service vendors that provide MongoDB hosting services. That is to say, if you are not a cloud services vendor and are not openly selling MongoDB products, but are just using it as a backend database for your application, then there will be no impact on it, no matter if you are an e-commerce, IoT, financial, social, gaming, mobile apps, and so on. "MongoDB is still designed to always support and protect innovation and openness."

However, this open source protocol change obviously brought the market users of the "powder", such as the Linux community of the successive "abandonment", as well as AWS, IBM, Microsoft launched compatible with the MongoDB

MongoDB is a new product for the Linux community.

The conflict between commercial realization and innovation in open source databases seems to have not yet been resolved.

Alan Chhabra also revealed MongoDB's future plans at the conference, which will be based on the Intelligent Operations Data Platform and next-generation infrastructure, culture, methodology, and security, to drive legacy system modernization, data-as-a-service, cloud data strategy, and business agility, and in turn help customers achieve a data-driven digital transformation.

In response to MongoDB's development in China, Alan Chhabra said the company will continue to lead the way in database technology through innovation, and work with partners to help Chinese enterprises in their digital transformation.

Yulong Su, Vice President of MongoDB North Asia, said, "China is a big data country, and data is the oil of the future. How to utilize the data well and let the data oil help Chinese enterprises take off is what MongoDB hopes to achieve in China. As the digital transformation of Chinese enterprises gradually goes deeper, the value of the MongoDB database is continuously released."

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