MongoDB World Interview with Kelly Stirman

I got to sit down with Kelly Stirman of MongoDB. 

The new product released by MongoDB is MongoDB Atlas, which is their DB-as-a-Service.  There is one customer doing a 20TB deployment coming to atlas in Europe, for more than $1 million a year.

Atlas can work with mixed cluster on-prem, cloud, cross-cloud. Currently, Atlas is AWS-only. In the future, you will be able to move between clouds or cross clouds. Furthermore, you only need an Atlas account, not an AWS account. You will be able to do a hybrid deploy with Cloud Manager and not worry about the underlying hardware. More cloud providers and regions are coming soon, Stirman said.

The other new product is MongoDB Compass,  a query tool and more for Windows and Mac.

Features:

• CRUD.
• Bulk operations.
• Index statistics, how much space, type of index, geospatial, text, hash..
• Explain plan (query planner visualization).
• Geospatial data visualized in a map.
• Certain patterns could be sensitive data (SSN, credit card) can flag it.

MongoDB Updates:

• Graph analytics (keep one database for basic graph database features).
• Bike commuting data demo.
• Facetted maps in 3.4.
• Replication improvements in initial sync; resume syncs.
• Read-only views.
• Field Level Security coming.
• Better data masking coming.

SQL Interfaces to MongoDB: Spark SQL, Drill, Simba ODBC, Progress ODBC, MongoDB and Connector for BI.

Finally, a Scratch 2.0 translator from SQL to Mongo is coming soon.