MongoDB Real World Usecases
ARTH — Task 32 👨🏻💻
Task Description📄
🔅 Create one use-case blog or case-study on how industries are using MongoDB.
🔰 MongoDB :
MongoDB is a relatively new contender in the data storage circle compared to giants like Oracle and IBM DB2, but it has gained huge popularity with their distributed key value store, MapReduce calculation capability and document oriented NoSQL features.
MongoDB is an open-source document database and leading NoSQL database. MongoDB is written in C++.
History :
10gen software company began developing MongoDB in 2007 as a component of a planned platform as a service product. In 2009, the company shifted to an open-source development model, with the company offering commercial support and other services.
In 2013, 10gen changed its name to MongoDB Inc.
On October 20, 2017, MongoDB became a publicly traded company, listed on NASDAQ as MDB with an IPO price of $24 per share.
On October 30, 2019, MongoDB teamed up with Alibaba Cloud, who will offer its customers a MongoDB-as-a-service solution. Customers can use the managed offering from BABA’s global data centers.
Industry Use Case :
Cisco
In November 2011, Cisco launched WebEx Social , an enterprise collaboration platform designed for today’s social, mobile, visual and virtual workforce. Users share knowledge and ideas throughout the enterprise, and across geographic and organizational boundaries. When their existing relational database needed a NoSQL extension to power the collaborative workspace, Cisco turned to MongoDB as their NoSQL database of choice.
The Problem :
WebEx Social’s rapid evolution required expanded data store capabilities and the ability to build successful new social features. Cisco sought an open source, NoSQL solution that was scalable, flexible and met the product’s hardcore enterprise needs: secure, mature commercial support, able to deliver consistent back up and disaster recovery, and easy to integrate with legacy systems. After an extensive evaluation and successful proof of concept, Cisco adopted MongoDB in mid-2011.
Why MongoDB ->
- EASY TO IMPLEMENT DOCUMENT MODEL
MongoDB’s document-based data model offers Cisco the right balance between complex relational databases and the pure key value store of most NoSQL solutions.
In contrast with a relational model, which requires a three-step process of fetch-update-commit, MongoDB’s in-place atomic updates allow for “one-stop operations,” according to Gandhi.
- MILLISECOND RESPONSE TIME
With MongoDB, Cisco sped up reads from 30 seconds in some extreme cases to tens of milliseconds per object and eliminated caching needs in certain cases. As the WebEx Social platform evolves, Cisco plans to migrate more write-heavy features to MongoDB.
- HIGHLY SCALABLE
MongoDB meets the demands of WebEx Social’s high-volume write activity. MongoDB offers a fast, easy way to de-normalize, index and extract information from data stores and its unique compound and geospatial indexing are a big plus.
- HIGH AVAILABILITY
Cisco uses built-in sharding and replica sets, which are easy to use and enable high availability through automatic failover of nodes and recovery of member nodes.
Many have taken up MongoDB as part of their project development, a testament to the usability, flexibility and innovation that the database offers.
Results :
The Cisco development team is constantly evaluating the most effective product roadmap to drive customer success on WebEx Social. MongoDB provides Cisco with a user friendly platform for customers and an easy, powerful technology for developers. Cisco is focused on rolling out new features quickly and offering flexibility to users, and “MongoDB is a big piece of that,” said Gandhi.
