Update to the world's most popular document
database is the most performant version of MongoDB ever released,
with greater ease of use and enterprise-grade security, resilience,
and availability for a wide variety of applications
Optimizations in MongoDB 8.0 improve overall
throughput by up to 32%, while accelerating time series data
aggregations by more than 200%
New scale-out capabilities in MongoDB 8.0
distribute data up to 50x faster and reduce single-shard cluster
costs by up to 50% for efficient scalability
MongoDB 8.0 expands industry-first Queryable
Encryption to provide full-lifecycle data protection for additional
use cases
LONDON, Oct. 2, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced the
general availability of MongoDB 8.0, the best-performing version of
MongoDB, the world's most popular document database. Millions of
developers and more than 50,000 customers—including 70% of the
Fortune 100 and leading global enterprises—rely on MongoDB as a
trusted operational database for applications across a wide range
of use cases. MongoDB 8.0 provides significant performance
improvements, reduced scaling costs, and additional scalability,
resilience, and data security capabilities. MongoDB 8.0 is now
generally available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure
through MongoDB Atlas, on MongoDB Enterprise Advanced for
on-premises and hybrid deployments, and as a free download with
MongoDB Community Edition. To learn more about MongoDB 8.0, please
visit the product page.
"Customers across industries tell us how critical it is for
their core operational database to perform well, no matter the
scale," said Jim Scharf, Chief
Technology Officer at MongoDB. "Developers have long loved building
with MongoDB, so we've ensured that 8.0 kept the bar extremely high
for developer usability. MongoDB 8.0 was also built to exceed our
customers' most stringent security, resiliency, availability, and
performance requirements, and is the most impressive version of
MongoDB yet. MongoDB 8.0 gives customers the strongest possible
foundation for building a wide range of applications, now and in
the future."
Many customers primarily interact with organizations through
applications, and they expect reliable, responsive experiences when
doing so. Likewise, organizations need to know that their
applications are secure, robust, performant, and will operate
efficiently under all situations. Because of its ease of use,
scalability, high performance, industry-leading security
capabilities, and its ability to flexibly store and process
virtually any type of data, MongoDB is an ideal solution for
developers building applications and the customers who use them
alike. Built for the needs of a wide variety of enterprise
applications, MongoDB 8.0—the best version of MongoDB ever—empowers
development teams to build innovative, customer-focused
applications.
"As a MongoDB customer since 2022, we've loved building
with MongoDB. The flexibility of the document model, MongoDB's
ability to store both structured and unstructured data, and its
robust scalability has made MongoDB an ideal database solution for
Metaphor," said Mars Lans, co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
at Metaphor. "We're really excited about the capabilities that
MongoDB 8.0 brings, and we look forward to building
mission-critical applications with it."
"As a company dedicated to unlocking the full potential of
forests through data-driven climate projects, leveraging the right
technology is paramount to our mission," said Felix Horvat, Chief Technology Officer at OCELL.
"With MongoDB 8.0, we have seen an incredible boost in performance,
with some of our queries running twice as fast as before. This
improvement not only enhances our data processing capabilities but
also aligns perfectly with our commitment to resource efficiency.
By optimizing our backend operations, we can be more effective in
our climate initiatives while conserving resources—a true
reflection of our dedication to sustainable solutions."
With an emphasis on enterprise-grade security, durability,
availability, and performance—including more than 45 architectural
improvements and new features—MongoDB 8.0's capabilities
provide:
- Optimized performance for a wide variety of
applications. As the data applications generate and use
grows, inefficiencies can lead to increased infrastructure costs
and decreased performance. Because many customers primarily
interact with businesses through their applications, poor or
inconsistent application performance can lead to customer
unhappiness, lost opportunities, and lost revenue. It's therefore
imperative for organizations to ensure that their applications
perform consistently well.
MongoDB 8.0 improves performance by allowing applications to
quickly query and transform data. Architectural optimizations in
MongoDB 8.0 have significantly reduced memory usage and query
times, and MongoDB 8.0 has more efficient batch processing
capabilities than previous versions. Specifically, MongoDB 8.0
features:
- 32% better throughput
- 56% faster bulk writes
- 20% faster concurrent writes during data replication
In addition, MongoDB 8.0 can handle higher
volumes of time series data and can perform complex aggregations
more than 200% faster—with lower resource usage and costs.
- Innovative encryption that unlocks new use
cases. Data protection and security are paramount, and
safeguarding sensitive information with robust encryption is more
critical than ever. Organizations must protect their data using
encryption throughout its lifecycle: in transit over networks, at
rest where it is stored, and while it's in use for querying and
processing. However, it can be challenging to encrypt data while it
is queried and processed, leaving it vulnerable to inadvertent
exposure or exfiltration by threat actors.
MongoDB Queryable Encryption is a
groundbreaking, industry-first innovation developed by the MongoDB
Cryptography Research Group that allows customers to encrypt
sensitive application data, store it securely as fully randomized
encrypted data in the MongoDB database, and to run expressive
queries on the encrypted data for processing—with no cryptography
expertise required.
Now with range queries in MongoDB 8.0,
Queryable Encryption helps reduce the risk of inadvertent data
exposure and exfiltration by malicious actors with applications
that store and process highly sensitive data by keeping it
encrypted throughout its lifecycle, with no cryptography expertise
required.
- Faster horizontal scaling for high availability. As
organizations grow, their application requirements evolve. For
example, scaling to support millions of users can be challenging
for organizations that originally designed their applications for
thousands of users. Implementing architectural changes in
production applications can be challenging—they can be costly,
time-consuming, and can require specialized skills. We've continued
to improve MongoDB's robust scaling features in each version of the
database since introducing horizontal scaling in 2010.
With MongoDB 8.0, horizontal scaling is faster
and easier than ever, and at a lower cost to get started.
Horizontal scaling allows applications to scale beyond the limits
of traditional database resources by splitting data across multiple
servers known as shards—without having to pre-provision increasing
amounts of compute resources for a single server. Sharding
improvements in MongoDB 8.0 distribute data across shards up to 50
times faster and at up to 50% lower starting cost, without the need
for additional configuration or setup.
- Resilience for unexpected application
demand. End-users expect consistent application
experiences, even during periods of high demand and usage spikes.
Organizations without a highly durable operational database risk
poor customer experiences, with lagging application behavior (or
even downtime) during times of high demand.
MongoDB 8.0 provides greater control for teams
optimizing database performance for unpredictable spikes in usage
and sustained periods of high demand. MongoDB 8.0 includes the
ability to set a default maximum time limit for running queries, to
reject recurring types of problematic queries, and to set query
settings to persist through events like database restarts to help
deliver consistent performance for applications experiencing high
demand.
- Reduced costs and increased scale for vector
applications. The introduction of vector search opened up
possibilities for unlocking insights within unstructured data.
However, large-scale vector applications using full-fidelity
vectors can have high processing costs and slow query times,
hindering scalability and performance.
MongoDB addresses this challenge by adding the
ability to leverage quantized vectors and automatically quantize
full-fidelity vectors in Atlas Vector Search. Quantized
vectors—compressed representations of full-fidelity vectors—require
significantly less memory (73% to 96% less) and are faster to
retrieve while preserving accuracy. With vector quantization,
customers can build a wide range of search and AI applications at
higher scale and lower cost. And when combined with Search Nodes,
MongoDB's infrastructure for independent scalability and resource
optimization, quantized vectors can further reduce costs and
improve performance.
Generally available now, scalar quantized vector
ingestion enables customers to seamlessly import and work with
quantized vectors from their embedding models of choice—directly in
MongoDB Atlas.
Together, these new capabilities for MongoDB 8.0 provide the
fastest, most durable, secure, and reliable version of MongoDB for
building a wide variety of applications across the enterprise.
MongoDB 8.0 is available today via MongoDB Atlas—MongoDB's
multi-cloud developer data platform—as part of MongoDB Enterprise
Advanced for on-premises and hybrid deployments, and as a free
download from mongodb.com/try with MongoDB Community Edition. In
addition, customers upgrading from previous versions of MongoDB to
8.0 can find helpful upgrade guides on mongodb.com.
About MongoDB
Headquartered in New York, MongoDB's mission is to empower
innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by
unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for
developers, MongoDB's developer data platform is a database with an
integrated set of related services that allow development teams to
address the growing requirements for a wide variety of
applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience.
MongoDB has more than 50,000 customers in over 100 countries. The
MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions
of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders
trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit
mongodb.com.
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