MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by leothekim on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:54PM (#15023829)

They've made their share of mistakes, but they've stuck it out and have definitely improved their product over the years. I wish them all the best for their IPO. What would be really good to see As a measure of their business health is an indication of how their cloud business is doing with respect to their enterprise sales business. A healthy cloud business would signal less volatility in the face of high revenue garnered from fickle enterprise sales relationships that have been their bread and butter until the past couple years.

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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by meowface on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @12:31AM (#15024945)

Reliability and implementation ideas aside, MongoDB popularized document stores and document stores can sometimes be a good thing (even if there's usually little to no reason to prefer them to plain SQL databases for most applications). So they deserve credit there.

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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by GenericsMotors on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:10AM (#15025769)

Agreed; though the way they did their marketing early on the message they conveyed was that document databases were here to replace RDBMSs. It was extremely dishonest.

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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by pritambaral on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:17AM (#15035656)

> early on the message they conveyed was that document databases were here to replace RDBMSs.

The CTO still thinks so. Quote[0]: "MongoDB's CTO disagrees with this statement arguing that nearly 90% of database installations today would benefit from being replaced with MongoDB"

[0]: https://www.nemil.com/mongo/2.html

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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by mattmanser on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @05:01AM (#15025981)

To be fair to them, it wasn't just them, it was everyone.

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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by keithwhor on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @07:22AM (#15026597)

To be more fair to them, it was just them and the "everyone" you're referring to was a result of a fantastic blatant + guerilla marketing campaign. Or maybe I should say a MEAN success? :)

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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by mikekchar on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:36AM (#15026965)

It may seem like that from a certain perspective, but I remember drowning in the hype in 1992. It was going to be the next big thing: everything is going C++; you want objects; why would you store relational tables, when you want objects?; relational databases are just slow, clunky and complicate your code base. The company I was working at even tried it... very briefly :-) Unfortunately, I don't remember what we tried, but there were several around at the time. This stuff wasn't invented by MongoDB.

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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by ynniv on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:01AM (#15026769)

That's only because you forgot about Lotus Notes. Perhaps they will have similar fates.

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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by e12e on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:12AM (#15026810)

I thought filsystems popularised document stores ;-)

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Re:MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO by ZedDogX on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @08:10PM (#15023933)

I haven't used MongoDB but I've listened to those who are pushing for it. Yes, that's unfortunate that mistakes have been made (especially when it comes to databases). But, better to find that mistake early on rather than later. And it speaks to the founders dedication to the project that they navigated the rough waters and saw it through.

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