UPDATED 10:04 EDT / JUNE 23 2013

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MongoDB + Scale : Performance, Simplicity. Database-as-a-Service by ObjectRocket

Kenny Gorman and Chris Lalonde, founders of ObjectRocket which has since been acquired by Rackspace, discussed offering MongoDB database-as-a-service (DBaaS) with theCUBE host Dave Vellante, live at the MongoDB Days conference in New York City.

ObjectRocket was founded 2012, and a year later was acquired by Rackspace. Explaining the concept of DBaas, Gorman said that “a lot of folks out there are looking to forget about infrastructure,” what they are interested in is to develop applications, have quick time to market, and not worry about database management. “We’re trying to provide an interface with a higher order than other database providers.” ObjectRocket offers  back-end scale, performance, and simplicity in MongoDB.

The first cloud platform engineered for MongoDB by Rackspace allows one to develop, deploy, and scale MongoDB seamlessly without customers having to do anything. The key differentiator of OpenRocket, Lalonde said, was that “we have built our platform for the groud up, got our data center, racked computers, we built all that stuff up and made a system that will scale up to terabytes of storage.”

The scale problem has become super time complex

 

There are challenges around scale that people do not really understand, says Lalonde. As an example,  ebay took years before they got to a million customers, and still had scale problems. They could afford go buy the hardware they needed to address the issue. Instagram, however, took weeks to get to the same platform. “The scale problem has become super time complex.” Developers should focus on programming and not worry about scale, that is why OpenRocket provides automatic scale as a service.

Asked how they differentiate from Amazon, Gorman explained that Amazon was a general compute platform, “you can run everything on it. Our system is tailor-built from MongoDB, we’re not a virtualized environment, we scale easily. We provide the API to scale Mongo to more than a bare platform.”

Security has been a key focus for OpenRocket, according to Gorman. In that regard, the company’s DBaaS addresses security requirements by offering instances that close up by default, its SSL enabled and suppoerst SSL enabled clients, and all transmissions of data are over SSL.

SSD, flash cards, are the future, Lalonde says, as they allow flexibility, being dynamic, offering customers what they want.

  • We chose MongoDB because it was such an interesting paradigm shift

Asked why they chose MongoDB as database to offer as a service, Lalonde said that when it was launched, it brought ” such an interesting paradigm shift” by switching from relational databases to a document model. Commenting on the scalability issues associated with MongoDB, he stated that it has a “bad rep because they have put it in the wrong platform.” Databases have very specific requirements, which, unless met, will create problems. “They’re doing it wrong,” Gorman agreed.

Talking about NoSQL database adoption in the enterprise, Gorman pointed out that right now there are more options in the toolbox. “The challenges is to figure the right tools for the task at hand. It’s really important to understand the tools, what they do best,” why and how to use them.


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