Top 10 MongoDB Blogs of 2022

William To
December 19, 2022

2022 was a year of many milestones at MongoDB — from global events to enhancements to the MongoDB Atlas developer data platform, and everything in between. Our most popular blog posts reflected these achievements, covering announcements, events, and more, from MongoDB 6.0 to Queryable Encryption to our annual Partner of the Year awards.

Read on for a roundup of all our top blog posts from 2022.

10. Recognizing MongoDB's Partners of the Year

Partners are a big part of MongoDB’s success, helping our customers modernize their infrastructure with MongoDB, integrating MongoDB into their existing systems, and even selling Atlas on their marketplaces. Other partners also help adapt the MongoDB developer data platform to various sectors and niches, such as streaming data, ecommerce, and financial services.

Read Working Together: MongoDB’s Partner of the Year Awards to learn about a few of these organizations.

9. Syncing data with cluster-to-cluster sync

Data sync and backups are a key part of the Atlas developer data platform. Until recently, however, there was no easy way to sync data across clusters, especially if they were in different environments — think syncing a hybrid cluster with a cloud-native one.

This blog introduces cluster-to-cluster sync, which enables one-way synchronization between any two MongoDB clusters, regardless of type. The sync process is very flexible, includes real-time monitoring, and controls to pause, resume, or reverse synchronization at any time.

Read Keeping Data in Sync Anywhere with Cluster-to-Cluster Sync.

8. How MongoDB 6.0 improves time series data

Utilized in everything from IoT devices to ecommerce, time series data is an important use case for many industries. Since their release in MongoDB 5.0, time series collections have been continuously improved to help developers tackle a wider range of problems, including columnar compression for smaller storage footprints, densification for filling data gaps, and enhanced indexing on time series collections for better read performance.

Read MongoDB Announces New Time Series Capabilities Coming For MongoDB 6.0.

7. Reducing complexity with Apollo GraphQL and MongoDB Atlas

As a layer that unifies your cloud data, APIs, and services into a single, accessible schema (known as a graph), GraphQL brings a streamlined, monolithic approach to operations while retaining the benefits of a microservices architecture. This post discusses how the scalability, reliability, and usability of the MongoDB Atlas developer data platform make it an ideal data layer for any tech environment that utilizes a graph.

Read Building a Modern App Stack with Apollo GraphQL and MongoDB Atlas.

6. Improvements to change streams

Change streams enable applications to recognize data changes throughout their environment, simplifying the creation of event-driven applications and abilities like real-time personalization, notifications, and more.

This post explains the upgrades to change streams in depth, including the ability to retrieve the before and after states of documents to address more use cases; support for data definition language (DDL) operations (such as creating or dropping indexes with a single command) to simplify database management; and filtering notifications from aggregation frameworks for improved performance.

Read Change Streams in MongoDB 6.0 — Support Pre- and Post-Image Retrieval, DDL Operations, and more.

5. Breaking biases and getting more women into tech leadership

Even as representation in tech improves, only 26.7% of technologists are women — who leave the sector at a rate 45% higher than their male counterparts. For International Women’s Day, MongoDB senior product designer Ksenia Samokhvalova sat down with executives for a panel discussion on the root causes of (and potential solutions for) this issue. They discussed the differences between inclusivity and diversity, the hurdles for retention, how bias begins at a young age, and the importance of mentorship.

Read Breaking the Bias: How Can We Get More Women into Top-Level Tech.

4. Highlights from MongoDB World 2022

After three years, MongoDB World returned to New York City’s Javits Center from June 7-9 for three days of exploration, inspiration, and innovation. Readers were eager to get the scoop on everything they missed, from new product launches to workshops.

Day 1 kicked off the conference with keynotes announcing the latest features and outlining the concept of a developer data platform, an integrated set of data and application services with a unified developer experience. Day 2 included over 80 breakout sessions on topics ranging from diversity to data modeling to building with Rust. The last day featured a keynote from renowned inventor Ray Kurzweil, interactive competitions and challenges at the Builder’s Fest, and the “Chaos Presentation” from MongoDB CTO Mark Porter.

Read our recaps for day 1, day 2, and day 3 of MongoDB World. If you are interested in watching full sessions from MongoDB World, check out our playlist on YouTube.

3. Introducing MongoDB's Prometheus monitoring integration

A popular open source monitoring platform, Prometheus features a flexible query language (PromQL), a versatile data model that supports time series data, customizable alerting, a large, active user community, and consistent updates.

In this post, learn how the integration enables Prometheus to collect hardware and monitoring metrics from MongoDB and display them directly in the Prometheus UI or via Grafana dashboards. You can simplify monitoring with the Prometheus integration for MongoDB, removing the need to toggle between interfaces and keeping all your metrics in one place.

Read Introducing MongoDB’s Prometheus Monitoring Integration.

2. Queryable Encryption

For years, Queryable Encryption (QE) existed only as a theory: What if users could query fully-encrypted data, and only have to decrypt it once the results were returned? Given that data has traditionally been encrypted at rest or in transit — but not during the querying process — a feature like QE would add an additional layer of protection and remove a known vulnerability.

We were happy to see that readers were as excited as we were at the release of Queryable Encryption in preview. This announcement was only possible after years of research and partnerships with outside experts from Brown University, the University of Chicago, and a leading organization in the field. For more background on the evolution of Queryable Encryption, check out Wired’s article, A Long Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived.

Now, you can run fast, rich queries on encrypted data at scale, keeping it secure throughout its lifecycle. Queryable Encryption also helps speed up app development because it is easy to use and set up, is compatible with MongoDB drivers, and supports strong key management and cryptography.

Read MongoDB Releases Queryable Encryption Preview.

1. 7 reasons to upgrade to MongoDB 6.0

The release of MongoDB 6.0 was big news this year. It brought improvements and new features in areas, like security, change streams, time series collections, operations, and more — making the developer data platform even easier to run, scale, and build with. As with other releases, MongoDB 6.0 removes data silos, eliminates complexity, and frees up teams to spend less time troubleshooting custom architectures — and more time creating apps and products.

Some highlights were the inclusion of Atlas Search facets to easily filter results, the creation of initial sync (via file copy) to quickly catch up new or slow nodes in your replica sets, and the addition of new operators to aggregation frameworks for faster analysis and deeper insights.

Read 7 Big Reasons to Upgrade to MongoDB 6.0.

We hope you had a great 2022, and that you enjoyed attending our events, reading our blogs, and using the MongoDB Atlas developer data platform. As always, you can sign up for a free (forever) cluster on Atlas.

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MongoDB Underpins Massive Digital-First Data Strategy Adoption Across Asia Pacific from Singapore

Members of MongoDB’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) team get set for their first MongoDB Day in Singapore. Singapore is fast becoming a strategic hub for companies across Asia Pacific as they reorient around a digital-first strategy, according to Simon Eid, senior vice president, APAC, MongoDB. During the past year, MongoDB’s team in Singapore has expanded from five people to more than 50 people to support exponential growth and demand in the region. Speaking at the first MongoDB Day ever held in Singapore, which was sponsored by AWS, Eid explained that, since COVID-19 hit in March 2020, companies, senior management teams, and executive boards have started asking how quickly they could pivot to a digital-first strategy. “Retailers had to become experts at ecommerce, gaming and streaming companies had to deal with a surge of demand, pharmacies had to figure out how to get medications to their customers, and time was of the essence — speed was critical,” said Eid. MongoDB fastest for digital transformation Simon Eid, senior vice president, APAC, MongoDB. Eid said businesses across Asia Pacific quickly learned that the fastest way to build new digital capabilities was to use MongoDB. Developers could move incredibly fast and ship quickly. Product leaders realized they could get to market faster than the competition, and company executives realized they could seize new opportunities or respond to new threats. “Our whole ethos as a company is to make developers insanely productive, and our real opportunity for Asia Pacific is now how to help customers go to the next level supporting operational productivity with data management at the heart of everything they do,” he said. Simply the most secure Amit Samdarshi, product manager, Open Government Producst, explians how his team innovates. MongoDB has been downloaded 265 million times, ten times more than the number of developers in the world, which is testament to its growing global reputation. Locally in Singapore and across Asia Pacific, more and more customers are choosing MongoDB, and specifically Atlas, for its simplicity, flexibility, and robust security. “Regulators, financial institutions, and the Singapore government now recognize that MongoDB and Atlas provide the most secure data management system and service available in the market — you only have to look at Singapore’s FormSG within Open Government Products as a perfect example,” said Eid. Forms for public good Presentation at MongoDB Days Singapore Open Government Singapore has a dedicated team of 100 people working for FormSG, a department credited with revolutionizing government forms digitally with MongoDB Atlas on AWS. FormSG chose MongoDB because they required the highest level of security for data encryption as well as the confidence that they would not be impacted by downtime or performance issues with many users accessing forms simultaneously. “They describe themselves as “Forms for public good,” having touched the lives of millions of people during COVID-19, streamlining how members of the public engage with the multitude of government forms, and MongoDB is the backbone of this initiative,” said Eid. “We’re very proud of what they have achieved, held up as a shining example of data management excellence by the Singapore government now being showcased to other countries around the world,” he said. Poised for further growth From healthcare to social media analytics, digital banking and food delivery services, MongoDB is powering some of the most innovative growth companies to emerge across the region: A recent example is Greenline Synergy Co. Ltd (GLS) in Thailand using MongoDB Atlas to transform healthcare for the country’s leading hospital group, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS). Also in Thailand, Computerology is unlocking the value of social media management and social listening via analytics. Indonesian FinTech Amar Bank is the pioneer of digital banking providing microloans to people who wouldn’t be able to get financial services from traditional banks. Woowa Brothers Vietnam introduced its food delivery app, BAEMIN, to local users in May 2019, and it scaled rapidly throughout the pandemic to become one of the leading food technology companies across the country. Woowa Brothers Vietnam introduced its food delivery app BAEMIN to local users in May 2019 and it scaled rapidly throughout the pandemic to become one of the leading food technology companies across the country. Another interesting story from the wider APAC region is TableCheck, the world’s premiere booking and guest platform. TableCheck's CTO Johnny Shields was also on site at the event and presented on how MongoDB has been a fit for TableCheck's developer workflow since they were founded in 2013. He explained that MongoDB allowed them to work with their data easily and quickly while building out their APIs and application. We'll be having a full blog on their use case coming soon. MongoDB continues to invest in its Asia Pacific operations with Singapore now firmly established as the regional ASEAN hub for customers and partners. “Singapore is a highly regulated, highly secure market, which gives customers and partners confidence when working through their digital transformation strategies and the vendor partners they require. We are excited to have partnered with AWS for our first MongoDB day, which reinforces our close alignment to cloud providers who are an integral part of our customer digital transformation plans,” Eid said. Learn more about MongoDB Atlas and try for free today .

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MongoDB Atlas Integration with Ably Unlocks Real-time Capabilities

Enterprises across sectors increasingly realize that data, like time, doesn’t wait. Indeed, harnessing and synchronizing information in real time is the new currency of business agility. Enter the alliance between MongoDB and Ably—a partnership that has led to Ably's new database connector for MongoDB Atlas . The new database connector provides a robust framework for businesses to create real-time, data-intensive applications that can provide top-notch user experiences thanks to an opinionated client SDK to be used on top of LiveSync, ensuring both data integrity and real-time consistency—without compromising your existing tech stack. The synergy of MongoDB Atlas and Ably LiveSync This new MongoDB Atlas-Ably integration tackles a fundamental challenge in modern application architecture: maintaining data consistency across distributed systems in real-time. MongoDB Atlas serves as the foundation—a flexible, scalable database service that adapts to the ebb and flow of data demands. Meanwhile, Ably LiveSync acts as the nervous system, ensuring that every change, every update, resonates instantly across the entire application ecosystem. The Ably LiveSync database connector for MongoDB Atlas offers a transformative approach to real-time data management, combining unparalleled scalability with seamless synchronization. This solution effortlessly adapts to growing data volumes and expanding user bases, catering to businesses of all sizes—from agile startups to established enterprises. By rapidly conveying database changes to end-users, it ensures that all stakeholders operate from a single, up-to-date source of truth, fostering data consistency across the entire organization. At its core, LiveSync is built with robust resilience in mind, featuring built-in failover mechanisms and connection recovery capabilities. This architecture provides businesses with the high availability they need to maintain continuous operations in today's always-on digital landscape. Moreover, by abstracting away the complexities of real-time infrastructure, LiveSync empowers developers to focus on creating features that drive business value. This focus on developer productivity, combined with its scalability and reliability, positions Ably LiveSync for MongoDB Atlas as a cornerstone technology for companies aiming to harness the power of real-time data synchronization. Figure 1: Ably real-time integration with MongoDB Atlas. Industry transformation: A real-time revolution This new integration has a number of implications across various sectors. For example, in the banking and financial services sector , the MongoDB Atlas-Ably integration enables instantaneous fraud detection systems that can promptly react to potential threats. Live trading platforms benefit as well, seamlessly updating to reflect every market change as it happens. Banking applications are equally enhanced, with real-time updating of account balances and transactions, ensuring that users always have access to the most recent financial information. In the retail industry , meanwhile, the integration facilitates real-time inventory management across both physical and online stores, ensuring that supply matches demand at all times. This capability supports dynamic pricing strategies that can adapt instantly to fluctuations in consumer interest, and it powers personalized shopping experiences with live product recommendations tailored to individual customer preferences. Manufacturing and mobility sectors also see transformative benefits. With the capability for real-time monitoring of production lines, businesses can implement just-in-time manufacturing processes, streamlining operations and reducing waste. Real-time tracking of vehicles and assets enhances logistics efficiency, while predictive maintenance systems provide foresight into potential equipment failures, allowing for timely interventions. The healthcare sector stands to gain significantly from this technology. Real-time patient monitoring systems offer healthcare providers immediate alerts, ensuring swift medical responses when necessary. Electronic health records receive seamless updates across multiple care settings, promoting coherent patient care. Efficient resource allocation is achieved through live tracking of hospital beds and equipment, optimizing hospital operations. Insurance companies are not left out of this technological leap. The integration allows for dynamic risk assessment and pricing models that adapt in real-time, refining accuracy and responsiveness. Instant claim processing and status updates enhance customer satisfaction, while live tracking of insured assets facilitates more accurate underwriting and expedites the resolution of claims. Finally, in telecommunications and media this integration promises buffer-free content delivery and streaming services, vastly improving the end-user experience. real-time network performance monitoring enables proactive issue resolution, maintaining service quality. Users can enjoy synchronized experiences across multiple devices and platforms, fostering seamless interaction with digital content. Today's business imperative As industries continue to evolve at a rapid pace, the integration of MongoDB Atlas and Ably LiveSync provides a compelling way for businesses to not only keep up but lead the real-time revolution. For IT decision-makers looking to put their organizations at the forefront of innovation, this integration turns static data into a dynamic driver of business growth and market leadership. Access MongoDB Atlas and Ably LiveSync Resources and start your journey towards real-time innovation today. Learn more about how MongoDB Atlas can power industry-specific solutions .

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