Two takes on Mongo

Take 1 - MongoDB arose out of the general 2000s movement that focused on agility in Web application development (with never-ending-changes-to-schemas replacing etched-in-stone do-not-touch-schemas). The proliferation of data formats calls for something like MongoDB, more than a few adventurousdevelopers decided. A document database, it also rides the success of JSON (over XML), and deals with the bare necessities of state management. It also scales quite easily to humongous scale – hence the fanciful name MongoDB. It is a style of data management that is behind big data tide.

Take 2-  For my part, I like to think the name MongoDB hails from the good old days of Flash Gordon fighting Ming the Merciless, emperor of the Planet Mongo.  My imagination for technology was honed on the Flash serials way back in the Sputnik days, when I'd watch Community Space Theatre Sunday mornings. These spectrally illumined moments are lost to the ages, like all the other signifying TV signals now in the far beyond. But I found a public domain radio days Flash Gordon transmission, and had some fun, mixing it in to a podcast report on my visit in June to MongoDB World in New York for SearchDataManagement. com

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