MongoDB
MongoDB is a source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program developed by Alfons Kemper. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc. and licensed under the Server Side Public License (SSPL) which is deemed non-free by several distributions. MongoDB is a member of the MACH Alliance.
| Developer(s) | MongoDB Inc. |
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| Initial release | February 11, 2009[1] |
| Stable release | 6.0.1[2] / 19 August 2022，7 months ago |
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| Written in | C++, JavaScript, Python |
| Operating system | Windows Vista and later, Linux, OS X 10.7 and later, Solaris,[3] FreeBSD[4] |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Document-oriented database |
| License | Server Side Public License |
| Website | www |
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.[5]
On October 20, 2017, MongoDB became a publicly traded company, listed on NASDAQ as MDB with an IPO price of $24 per share.[6]
MongoDB is a global company with US headquarters in New York City, USA and International headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
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.[7]
| Version | Release date | Feature notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | August 2009 | [8] | |
| 1.2 | December 2009 |
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| 1.4 | March 2010 | [10] | |
| 1.6 | August 2010 |
| [11] |
| 1.8 | March 2011 | [12] | |
| 2.0 | September 2011 | [13] | |
| 2.2 | August 2012 | [14] | |
| 2.4 | March 2013 |
| [15] |
| 2.6 | April 8, 2014 |
| [16] |
| 3.0 | March 3, 2015 |
| [17] |
| 3.2 | December 8, 2015 |
| [18] |
| 3.4 | November 29, 2016 |
| [19] |
| 3.6 | November 2017 | [20] | |
| 4.0 | June 2018 |
| [21] |
| 4.2 | August 2019 | [22] | |
| 4.4 | July 2020 | [23] | |
| 4.4.5 | April 2021 | [24] | |
| 4.4.6 | May 2021 | [25] | |
| 5.0 | July 13, 2021 |
| [26][27][28] |
| 6.0 | July 2022 | [29] |
Main features
Ad-hoc queries
MongoDB supports field, range query, and regular-expression searches.[30] Queries can return specific fields of documents and also include user-defined JavaScript functions. Queries can also be configured to return a random sample of results of a given size.
Indexing
Fields in a MongoDB document can be indexed with primary and secondary indices or index.
Replication
MongoDB provides high availability with replica sets.[31] A replica set consists of two or more copies of the data. Each replica-set member may act in the role of primary or secondary replica at any time. All writes and reads are done on the primary replica by default. Secondary replicas maintain a copy of the data of the primary using built-in replication. When a primary replica fails, the replica set automatically conducts an election process to determine which secondary should become the primary. Secondaries can optionally serve read operations, but that data is only eventually consistent by default.
If the replicated MongoDB deployment only has a single secondary member, a separate daemon called an arbiter must be added to the set. It has a single responsibility, which is to resolve the election of the new primary.[32] As a consequence, an idealized distributed MongoDB deployment requires at least three separate servers, even in the case of just one primary and one secondary.[32]
Load balancing
MongoDB scales horizontally using sharding.[33] The user chooses a shard key, which determines how the data in a collection will be distributed. The data is split into ranges (based on the shard key) and distributed across multiple shards. (A shard is a master with one or more replicas.) Alternatively, the shard key can be hashed to map to a shard – enabling an even data distribution.
MongoDB can run over multiple servers, balancing the load or duplicating data to keep the system up and running in case of hardware failure.
File storage
MongoDB can be used as a file system, called GridFS, with load balancing and data replication features over multiple machines for storing files.
This function, called grid file system,[34] is included with MongoDB drivers. MongoDB exposes functions for file manipulation and content to developers. GridFS can be accessed using mongofiles utility or plugins for Nginx[35] and lighttpd.[36] GridFS divides a file into parts, or chunks, and stores each of those chunks as a separate document.[37]
Aggregation
MongoDB provides three ways to perform aggregation: the aggregation pipeline, the map-reduce function, and single-purpose aggregation methods.[38]
Map-reduce can be used for batch processing of data and aggregation operations. But according to MongoDB's documentation, the Aggregation Pipeline provides better performance for most aggregation operations.[39]
The aggregation framework enables users to obtain the kind of results for which the SQL GROUP BY clause is used. Aggregation operators can be strung together to form a pipeline – analogous to Unix pipes. The aggregation framework includes the $lookup operator which can join documents from multiple collections, as well as statistical operators such as standard deviation.
Server-side JavaScript execution
JavaScript can be used in queries, aggregation functions (such as MapReduce), and sent directly to the database to be executed.
Capped collections
MongoDB supports fixed-size collections called capped collections. This type of collection maintains insertion order and, once the specified size has been reached, behaves like a circular queue.
Transactions
MongoDB claims to support multi-document ACID transactions since the 4.0 release in June 2018.[40] This claim was found to not be true as MongoDB violates snapshot isolation.[41]
Editions
MongoDB Community Server
The MongoDB Community Edition is free and available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.[42]
MongoDB Enterprise Server
MongoDB Enterprise Server is the commercial edition of MongoDB and is available as part of the MongoDB Enterprise Advanced subscription.[43]
MongoDB Atlas
MongoDB is also available as an on-demand fully managed service. MongoDB Atlas runs on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.[44]
On March 10, 2022, MongoDB warned its users in Russia and Belarus that their data stored on the MongoDB Atlas platform will be destroyed due to U.S. sanctions over the war in Ukraine.[45]
Architecture
Programming language accessibility
MongoDB has official drivers for major programming languages and development environments.[46] There are also a large number of unofficial or community-supported drivers for other programming languages and frameworks.
Serverless access
Management and graphical front-ends
The primary interface to the database has been the mongo shell. Since MongoDB 3.2, MongoDB Compass is introduced as the native GUI. There are products and third-party projects that offer user interfaces for administration and data viewing.[47]
Licensing
MongoDB Community Server
As of October 2018, MongoDB is released under the Server Side Public License (SSPL), a non-free license developed by the project. It replaces the GNU Affero General Public License, and is nearly identical to the GNU General Public License version 3, but requires that those making the software publicly available as part of a "service" must make the service's entire source code (insofar that a user would be able to recreate the service themselves) available under this license. By contrast, the AGPL only requires the source code of the licensed software to be provided to users when the software is conveyed over a network.[48][49] The SSPL was submitted for certification to the Open Source Initiative but later withdrawn.[50] In January 2021, the Open Source Initiative stated that SSPL is not an open source license.[51] The language drivers are available under an Apache License. In addition, MongoDB Inc. offers proprietary licenses for MongoDB. The last versions licensed as AGPL version 3 are 4.0.3 (stable) and 4.1.4.
MongoDB has been removed from the Debian, Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions due to the licensing change. Fedora determined that the SSPL version 1 is not a free software license because it is "intentionally crafted to be aggressively discriminatory" towards commercial users.[52][53]
Bug reports and criticisms
Security
Due to the default security configuration of MongoDB, allowing anyone to have full access to the database, data from tens of thousands of MongoDB installations has been stolen. Furthermore, many MongoDB servers have been held for ransom.[54][55]
In September 2017; updated January 2018, in an official response Davi Ottenheimer, lead Product Security at MongoDB, proclaimed that measures have been taken by MongoDB to defend against these risks. [56]
From the MongoDB 2.6 release onwards, the binaries from the official MongoDB RPM and DEB packages bind to localhost by default. From MongoDB 3.6, this default behavior was extended to all MongoDB packages across all platforms. As a result, all networked connections to the database will be denied unless explicitly configured by an administrator.[57]
Technical criticisms
In some failure scenarios where an application can access two distinct MongoDB processes, but these processes cannot access each other, it is possible for MongoDB to return stale reads. In this scenario it is also possible for MongoDB to roll back writes that have been acknowledged.[58] This issue was addressed since version 3.4.0 released in November 2016[59] (and back-ported to v3.2.12).[60]
Before version 2.2, locks were implemented on a per-server process basis. With version 2.2, locks were implemented at the database level.[61] Since version 3.0,[62] pluggable storage engines were introduced, and each storage engine may implement locks differently.[62] With MongoDB 3.0 locks are implemented at the collection level for the MMAPv1 storage engine,[63] while the WiredTiger storage engine uses an optimistic concurrency protocol that effectively provides document-level locking.[64] Even with versions prior to 3.0, one approach to increase concurrency is to use sharding.[65] In some situations, reads and writes will yield their locks. If MongoDB predicts a page is unlikely to be in memory, operations will yield their lock while the pages load. The use of lock yielding expanded greatly in 2.2.[66]
Up until version 3.3.11, MongoDB could not do collation-based sorting and was limited to byte-wise comparison via memcmp which would not provide correct ordering for many non-English languages when used with a Unicode encoding. The issue was fixed on August 23, 2016.
Prior to MongoDB 4.0, queries against an index were not atomic. Documents which were being updated while the query was running could be missed.[67] The introduction of the snapshot read concern in MongoDB 4.0 eliminated this phenomenon.[68]
Although MongoDB claims in an undated article entitled "MongoDB and Jepsen"[69] that their database passed Distributed Systems Safety Research company Jepsen's tests, which it called “the industry’s toughest data safety, correctness, and consistency Tests”, Jepsen published an article in May 2020 stating that MongoDB 3.6.4 had in fact failed their tests, and that the newer MongoDB 4.2.6 has more problems including “retrocausal transactions” where a transaction reverses order so that a read can see the result of a future write.[70][71] Jepsen noted in their report that MongoDB omitted any mention of these findings on MongoDB's "MongoDB and Jepsen" page.
MongoDB Conference
MongoDB Inc. hosts an annual developer conference which has been referred to as either MongoDB World or MongoDB.live.[72]
| Year | Dates | City | Venue | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 [73] | June 23–25 | New York | Sheraton Times Square Hotel | |
| 2015 [74] | June 1–2 | New York | Sheraton Times Square Hotel | |
| 2016 [75] | June 28–29 | New York | New York Hilton Midtown | |
| 2017 [76] | June 20–21 | Chicago | Hyatt Regency Chicago | First year not in New York City |
| 2018 [77] | June 26–27 | New York | New York Hilton Midtown | |
| 2019 [78] | June 17–19 | New York | New York Hilton Midtown | |
| 2020 [79] | May 4–6 | Online | In‑person event cancelled and conference held entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |
| 2021 [80] | July 13–14 | Online | Conference held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |
| 2022 [81] | June 7–9 | New York | Javitz Center |
See also
- Apache Cassandra
- BSON, the binary JSON format MongoDB uses for data storage and transfer
- List of server-side JavaScript implementations
- MEAN, a solutions stack using MongoDB as the database
- Server-side scripting
- Amazon DocumentDB, a proprietary database service designed for MongoDB compatibility
- Azure Cosmos DB, a proprietary database service suite designed for multi-database compatibility including MongoDB.
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External links
- Official website