MongoDB World Highlights NoSQL Databases in the Enterprise

by Darryl K. Taft

Dev Ittycheria, president and CEO of MongoDB, said the company is poised to become the “new default” database as enterprises realize the potential of its NoSQL offering above traditional relational databases.

AXA, a MongoDB customer, used MongoDB to create an Apple Watch app called Drive Coach that monitors the way its customers drive.

New York City-based x.ai powers its artificial intelligence (AI)-based virtual personal assistant with MongoDB. The startup launched two personal assistants, twins “Amy” and “Andrew,” that serve as personal assistants to eliminate the tedious email ping-pong that accompanies arranging meetings.

Ben Golub, CEO of Docker Inc., said the company formed a partnership with MongoDB so that two “massively disruptive” firms could pool their resources to help developers “program the Internet.”

Docker’s Ben Golub describes the future of Docker container-based distributed applications in five easy steps.

Docker has a vibrant ecosystem of partners and users, including born-on-the-Web companies and established enterprises.

Gilt Groupe went from dev-to-deploy in weeks to dev-to-deploy in minutes by using Docker technology.

ING went from taking more than nine months to deploy to production to being ready to deploy in 15 minutes by using Docker technology.

In a “Scale the Universe” panel, journalist Diane Brady engages with (left to right) Michael Oltman, managing director of technology at Apervita; Tom Schenk, chief data officer in the city of Chicago’s Department of Innovation and Technology; and James Myers, director of SSID Solutions Architecture at Intel.

MongoDB has helped power Chicago’s WindyGrid, an intelligent operations platform that helps improve services for the city’s citizens and cut costs.

MongoDB World 2015 sponsors included Teradata, Rackspace, IBM, Intel, Pentaho and a bunch of others.

Real, live cheetahs give database advice at the RocksDB booth at MongoDB World 2015.

Hilary Mason, CEO and founder of Fast Forward Labs, gives her vision of the kind of future that data will provide. The biggest opportunities and innovations are not all going to come from startups; many will come from mega-corporations that have massive amounts of untapped data to be mined, she said.

MongoDB donated $5,000 to Girls Who Code and entered into a partnership with the organization to help close the gender gap in IT.