Community Day Trivia #8: What was the first company MongoDB acquired, and when?

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What was the first company MongoDB acquired, and when?

WiredTiger 12/2014 was the first acquisition

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The first company acquired by MongoDB was WiredTiger in December, 2014.

Press Release: MongoDB Acquires WiredTiger Inc. | MongoDB

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Hi @logwriter,

Thanks for the reference including a citation for the acquisition!

As part of the acquisition, MongoDB adds to its team the experts behind WiredTiger, including co-founders Keith Bostic (also a founder of Sleepycat Software), Dr. Michael Cahill, and their colleagues. Bostic and Cahill have decades of experience writing high performance storage engines, and were architects of Berkeley DB, the most widely-used embedded data management software in the world.

Sleepycat origins for the WiredTiger team :wink:

Regards,
Stennie