In this tutorial you will learn about the MongoDB History and its application with practical example.
MongoDB History
2007:
In 2007, New York based software company 10gen started developing MongoDB. Initially company started it to develop as a PAAS (Platform as a service) product, but the company experienced some scalability issues with the existing relational database systems, so they started to develop a document-oriented database system named as MongoDB. The name of the database was derived from the word “Humongous”.
2009:
In February 2009, MongoDB is initially released as an open source project and the company started to offer commercial support services for the same.
2013:
In August 2013, the company officially changed its name to MongoDB Inc.