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mongo

The MongoDB Database

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What it is

The MongoDB Database

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:03:38 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year37 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-06-06 02:03:43 UTC to 2025-12-28 12:37:44 UTC.

024682010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

From the project README

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Read the project’s introduction
MongoDB README Welcome to MongoDB! Components mongod - The database server. mongos - Sharding router. Download MongoDB https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/community Using homebrew brew tap mongodb/brew Using docker image docker pull mongodb/mongodb-community-server Download the MongoDB Shell https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/shell Using homebrew brew install mongosh Building See Building MongoDB. Running For command line options invoke: $ ./mongod --help To run a single server database: $ sudo mkdir -p /data/db $ ./mongod $ $ # The mongosh shell connects to localhost and test database by default: $ ./mongosh test> help Installing Compass You can install compass using the install_compass script packaged with MongoDB: $ ./install_compass This will download the appropriate MongoDB Compass package for your platform and install it. Drivers Client drivers for most programming languages are available at https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/applications/drivers/. Bug Reports See https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/wiki/Submit-Bug-Reports. Packaging Packages are created dynamically by the buildscripts/packager.py script. This will generate RPM and Debian packages. Learn MongoDB Documentation - https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/ Developer Center - https://www.mongodb.com/developer/ MongoDB University - https://learn.mongodb.com Cloud Hosted MongoDB https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas Forums https://mongodb.com/community/forums/ Technical questions about using MongoDB. https://mongodb.com/community/forums/c/server-dev Technical questions about building and developing MongoDB. LICENSE MongoDB is free and the source is available. Versions released prior to October 16, 2018 are published under the AGPL. All versions released after October 16, 2018, including patch fixes for prior versions, are published under the Server Side Public License (SSPL) v1. See individual files for details which will specify the license applicable to each file. Files subject to the SSPL will be noted in their headers.
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What Hacker News says

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013a·Apr 25, 2019
Mongo and Elastic built all of their technology on top of open source tech. Elasticsearch is built on Lucene. Its written in Java, and I'd bet a penny that they're not paying Oracle for that. Let's just take a quick look at Mongo and Oh look at that they're using dozens of open source libraries, such as zstandard [1] When its convenient for these companies, they're more than happy to release expensive, closed source addons to their "open source core". When its convenient for them, they'll point a finger at Amazon and say "look at how evil they are, they took all the hard work we put into this and want to sell it" (simultaneously, the hundreds of unpaid community contributors in the audience look perturbed, raise their hands to complain, and are immediately shushed, "just ignore them") "Open Core" companies like Docker, Mongo, or Elastic w
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ant to have it both ways; they want the moral high-ground that comes with accepting free contributions from the community, alongside executive power when it comes to deciding what will and wont be open source and who can and cannot use it for what purposes. You shouldn't have it both ways. That doesn't mean you can't build a successful "open core" company (all three of these companies are successful), but lets drop the act of granting them moral superiority. The only reason they exist is because of the exact same licenses and policies which enabled Amazon to do this. [1] https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/tree/master/src/third_party...
In Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs
codepopacy·Jan 11, 2019
Dj from MongoDB here. We have, obviously, been keeping up with this and other threads, but we've also been busy testing out Amazon DocumentDB's correctness and performance. While we're getting that together to bring you an official response in a few days, complete with test results and methodology, I'd like to pick up on a couple of points and some inaccuracies that have been repeated in various threads: This move shows MongoDB’s approach to document databases is compelling. We’ve thought so for a long time. A cloud-hosted, truly global and managed MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, has existed for the last two and a half years and has been serving more and more satisfied users every day with some massive workloads. MongoDB Atlas runs the full implementation of MongoDB in the cloud. Many features of MongoDB are documented as not being implemented by
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DocumentDB: these include change streams, many aggregation operators including $lookup and $graphlookup. But beyond that, well let’s just say we’ve been staggered by how many tests DocumentDB has failed (no spoilers!). The MongoDB API is not under an Apache license. MongoDB drivers are still under the Apache license. The MongoDB server used to be licensed under AGPL and is now licensed under SSPL. The source code is open to all, as it has always been, at https://github.com/mongodb/mongo DocumentDB is not cheaper than MongoDB Atlas. Preliminary estimates show this to only be the case with very large collections and very, very high read/write workloads. There’ll be more next week over on the MongoDB blogs. Dj
In Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility

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