MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $6 Million For Database As Service Engine

Re:MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $6 Million For Database As Servic... by jcampbell1 on Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:16PM (#4669449)

Does 10Gen just allow people to trample the trademark on Mongo? Imagine if the company was called OracleHQ.

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Re:MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $6 Million For Database As Servic... by jasonmccay on Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:45PM (#4669563)

MongoHQ has a licensing agreement with 10gen for the name. Plus, as already mentioned, MongoHQ works very closely with 10gen to not only promote the use of MongoDB, but to improve MongoDB as a database product.

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Re:MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $6 Million For Database As Servic... by ericcholis on Thursday October 18, 2012 @01:10PM (#4669720)

I believe that the same could be said for MongoLab, a similar service.

I also believe that both services need to be certified by 10gen before rolling out new releases. Also, paying customers at a certain level have access to 10gen for support if the provider can't address the issue.

Long story short, both these companies have a good relationship with 10gen in the interest of growing the space.

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Re:MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $6 Million For Database As Servic... by benwen on Thursday October 18, 2012 @02:32PM (#4670258)

MongoLab: yep, we have a similar (I'd imagine) license to the trademark.

10gen: they are awesome to work with as they know they are in for the long game - building a full ecosystem.

Congrats to the HQ team! Always good to see further evidence that the DBaaS market is generating healthy capital interest. Game on!

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Re:MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $6 Million For Database As Servic... by kami8845 on Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:27PM (#4669492)

afaik mongohq works closely with 10gen

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