From Postgres Extensions to Global Spotlight, Documentdb Sparks Clash Between Open Source Ideals and Corporate Cloud Power Politics

Why DocumentDB can be a win for MongoDB

As great as MongoDB’s recent quarter was (and it was great), what’s even better might be the very thing some people think could harm its future quarters: the new Linux Foundation–hosted DocumentDB. Billed as “a fully open source, MongoDB-compatible document database,” DocumentDB has the potential to move developers off MongoDB. But that’s not the whole story. DocumentDB also gives MongoDB a chance to ride an industry-funded effort to popularize …

Microsoft, AWS, Google Unite to Back Open-Source DocumentDB

In a rare display of unity among cloud computing giants, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google have thrown their weight behind DocumentDB, an open-source document database now under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation. This move, announced at the Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam, signals a potential shift toward more collaborative, vendor-neutral tools in the fiercely competitive world of data management. DocumentDB, origina…

Who says databases are boring? Microsoft, Google, and AWS all back the Linux Foundation's move to add DocumentDB

DocumentDB combines the reliability of Postgres with document storage.