On October 31, Alibaba cloud reached a strategic cooperation agreement with mongodb, an open source database software company. According to the agreement, Alibaba cloud will become the only cloud manufacturer in the world that can provide the latest mongodb service. The latest version of mongodb 4.2 will go online in November.
It is understood that mongodb is one of the most popular open source databases in the industry. In a database survey report for developers in 2019, mongodb takes the second place with a utilization rate of 24.6%.
Alibaba cloud is the first cloud manufacturer to provide mongodb services in China. It provides cloud hosting database services that are fully compatible with mongodb protocol. Based on the Apsara distributed system and highly reliable storage engine, Alibaba cloud provides Alibaba cloud customers with multiple enterprise level service capabilities, such as multi node and high availability, elastic expansion, disaster tolerance, backup and recovery, performance optimization, etc. it has been widely used in games, the Internet of things Finance, logistics and other industries.
Last year, many open-source database manufacturers, such as mongodb, announced to modify the agreement, which restricted the use of open-source database on the cloud. It is understood that at present, the global cloud manufacturers are unable to provide the database service after mongodb 4.0. Alibaba cloud's cooperation with mongodb has reopened the channel for enterprises to use open-source databases on the cloud.
"China is one of the largest database software markets in the world, and mongodb has a wide range of enterprise customers and developers in China," said devittycheria, President and CEO of mongodb. We are very happy to cooperate with Alibaba cloud to help enterprises achieve digital transformation. '
Li Feifei, vice president of Alibaba group and general manager of Alibaba cloud's intelligent database business department, said: 'Alibaba cloud always adheres to embracing open source and actively feeds back the open source community. After cooperating with mongodb, Alibaba cloud will better meet the needs of enterprises in various industries for cloud database. '