An overview of MongoDB, popular open source projects in the space, how to learn more and get involved in the community

1. #DayofLiferay
An Introduction to the
MongoDB Community
Francesca Krihely
Community Manager for MongoDB, 10gen
@Francium

2. What is MongoDB

3. MongoDB is a ___________
database
• Document
• Open source
• High performance
• Horizontally scalable
• Full featured

4. Horizontally Scalable

5. Full Featured
• Ad Hoc queries
• Real time aggregation
• Rich query capabilities
• Traditionally consistent
• Geospatial features
• Support for most programming languages
• Flexible schema

6. Database Landscape

7. http://www.mongodb.org/download
s

8. Mongo Shell

9. Why Should You Learn
MongoDB?

10. Leading Non-Relational
Database
Google Search LinkedIn Job Skills
MongoDB
Competitor 1
Competitor 2
Competitor 3
Competitor 4
Competitor 5
MongoDB Competitor 2 Competitor 4
All Others
Competitor 1 Competitor 3
Jaspersoft Big Data Index Indeed.com Trends
Direct Real-Time Downloads Top Job Trends
1. HTML 5
MongoDB 2. MongoDB
Competitor 1 3. iOS
4. Android
Competitor 2 5. Mobile Apps
6. Puppet
Competitor 3
7. Hadoop
8. jQuery
9. PaaS
10. Social Media

11. It’s hot

12. MongoDB has native
bindings for over 12
languages

15. MongoDB drivers
• Official Support for 12 languages
• Community drivers for tons more
• Drivers connect to mongo servers
• Drivers translate BSON into native types
• mongo shell is not a driver, but works like one in
some ways
• Installed using typical means (npm, pecl, gem,
pip)

16. The Technology has
matured

17. MongoDB 2.4

18. Hundreds of Free
Resources

19. Free online MongoDB courses
at education.10gen.com

20. The Community

21. From NYC to Colombo, Sri
Lanka

22. Over 10,000 attend
annual MongoDB
conferences

23. Over 17,000 members in
MongoDB user group
(MUGs)

24. Open Source Community
• Forked 779 times
• Thousands of community projects like
ODMs, GUIs, monitoring tools

25. Countly for Mobile Analytics

26. Graylog2: Application
Logging

27. Eve: Customizable REST API

28. Strider: Open Source
Continuous Deployment

29. mgo: the MongoDB Driver for
Go

30. The Little MongoDB Book

31. Thousands of MongoDB
Deployments

32. Community Events

33. Financial Tech Hackathon
• First one in NYC
• 3 months planning
• 200+ attendees
• 37 projects
• 30 powered by MongoDB

34. FinGraph: REST API

35. Mobile Sales App Platform

36. TidBit: Merchant Bitcoin
Tools

37. MongoDB March Madness

38. Next Steps: How to get
involved?

39. Sign up for a webinar,
online course, user
group or conference

40. 10gen.com/signup

41. Upcoming MongoDB
Conferences
• MongoDB Stockholm – May 3 (Free)
• MongoDB San Francisco – May 10
• MongoDB New York City – June 21

42. Discount code
mug25 for 25% off

43. #DayofLiferay
Questions?
Francesca Krihely: francesca@10gen.com