Source: thenewstack.io
MongoDB 5.0: Serverless, Live Resharding, Time Series DataCategory: Software, Database, Data, Privacy
NoSQL database system provider MongoDB launched MongoDB 5.0 this week at MongoDB.live, the company’s user conference, unveiling some anticipated features such as live resharding, along with several others. It has been three years since MongoDB released MongoDB 4.0, and five since the debut of MongoDB Atlas, the company’s managed offering, and now MongoDB 5.0 takes even more off the user’s plate with the preview of MongoDB Serverless.
MongoDB will always have the ability to be run anywhere, that’s a key part of our value prop, but the amount of value you can achieve from having it be fully managed and just a magic endpoint in the cloud is so much higher,” Davidson said.
The addition of time series data, which is simply a sequence of data points indexed in time order, brings with it the ability to easily and quickly perform a number of functions that you might otherwise need to handle yourself, as a developer.
To that end, Davidson said: “Now, with Live Resharding, you can make a change to that shard key and MongoDB will do all the backend synchronization of the data to essentially move it appropriately to all the right shards and give you a critical section to flip over onto this new key, which just makes it so that shard is no longer a one-way door and means you don’t have to be scared of ‘Oh my God, if I make the wrong choice, I’m doomed.’ It just makes it a lot easier to move forward and take advantage of sharding for what it was built for, which is scaling.”
MongoDB will always have the ability to be run anywhere, that’s a key part of our value prop, but the amount of value you can achieve from having it be fully managed and just a magic endpoint in the cloud is so much higher,” Davidson said.
The addition of time series data, which is simply a sequence of data points indexed in time order, brings with it the ability to easily and quickly perform a number of functions that you might otherwise need to handle yourself, as a developer.
To that end, Davidson said: “Now, with Live Resharding, you can make a change to that shard key and MongoDB will do all the backend synchronization of the data to essentially move it appropriately to all the right shards and give you a critical section to flip over onto this new key, which just makes it so that shard is no longer a one-way door and means you don’t have to be scared of ‘Oh my God, if I make the wrong choice, I’m doomed.’ It just makes it a lot easier to move forward and take advantage of sharding for what it was built for, which is scaling.”
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