MongoDB has used the release of version 8.0 to defend its viability as the underpinning of business-critical transactional systems.
"We've made it easier and cheaper for customers to get started with sharding, because now we offer the ability to co-locate config servers with the core data bearing nodes, which makes it easier and more cost effective when you're starting off – you do not have to have an extra infrastructure. As your application scales, you can choose to decouple those things for better isolation and better tunability later on, but it lowers the barrier to entry," he said.
Azam said it was a"common misnomer" that just because MongoDB has a flexible schema, it is not governed and completely schema-less."We've allowed customers the flexibility to introduce things like typing schema validation and governance of different versions of the collections for years now." Adam Ronthal, research VP in Gartner's ITL data and analytics group, said the document model of databases like MongoDB appealed to developers for its flexibility and agility, particularly with its distributed scalability. However, he noted achieving transactional performance required some redundancy.