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MongoLab now supports Google Cloud Platform!

By on 2013/05/14 in general, partnerships

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This week at Google I/O we are launching support for MongoLab‘s fifth cloud provider – Google Cloud Platform. You can now use MongoLab to provision and manage MongoDB deployments on Google Compute Engine (GCE)!

So far we are very impressed with the capabilities of the GCE infrastructure.  In particular:

  • The network is fast. I mean really fast. Some of the bandwidth and latency benchmark scores are astounding. Since I/O is king for databases this will be great for connecting your GCE-hosted application to a MongoDB instance hosted by MongoLab.

  • GCE has a global private network connecting GCE regions across the world. This will be great for global multi-region clusters. We don’t support this quite yet, but when we do GCE will provide a high-speed private backbone upon which to build a great solution.

  • The API is clean, and VMs spin-up fast. This is key for automation, and we like to automate.

For now we are in an early access beta, supporting only our free Sandbox database plans in GCE’s us-central1 region. We will be launching support for the rest of our product line in subsequent releases.

We will have a Developer Sandbox (a.k.a “booth”) at the conference on Friday May 17th. If you are at Google I/O and into MongoDB come visit us!

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How to use MongoDB on RedHat OpenShift with MongoLab

By on 2013/04/11 in education, MongoDB, partnerships

Hey RedHat fans – we’ve got your MongoDB hosting needs covered!

In today’s post we’ll be presenting a quick-start guide on how to connect OpenShift, the free RedHat auto-scaling Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), with our popular MongoDB Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), MongoLab.

For demonstration purposes, we’ll be using a Node.js application that we’ve written (available for download here). All it takes to connect your OpenShift application is five easy steps!

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MongoLab at Overdriver.com

By on 2013/03/25 in announcement, general, MongoDB, partnerships

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We’re excited to partner with Overdriver, a unique Platform-as-a-Service for gaming that is showcasing their beta service for the first time at this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC)!

This exciting partnership means that MongoLab will serve as the core data storage provider for Overdriver’s online game developer community. You can find out more right here.

By marrying dynamic cloud scaling with gaming-specific tooling for features like virtual goods and social functionality, Overdriver addresses the biggest demand issue that game studios face: bringing titles to market quickly but with little operational risk.

MongoDB naturally supports the object-oriented information model in games, capturing concepts such as user characters, possessions, game pieces, and state of play. MongoLab’s robust and performant MongoDB-as-a-Service lets Overdriver game developers give their full attention to designing compelling games.

We are fascinated by Overdriver and honored to be an inaugural partner in their ground-breaking specialized PaaS approach.

If you’re in San Francisco this week stop by their booth, #1838, at GDC and meet the Overdriver team. Also, be sure to sign up for an account at Overdriver.com. FYI, creating a new environment at Overdriver automatically creates a new MongoLab account and database.

We can’t wait to play with what you build!

Object Modeling in Node.js with Mongoose

By on 2013/03/11 in education, MongoDB, open source, partnerships

Check it out! We’ve just updated our Heroku Dev Center tutorial on object modeling in Node.js using Mongoose, a MongoDB ODM library. Mongoose gives your collections structure and simplifies Node’s callback patterns to make using MongoDB with Node.js even easier.

Learn more and download the sample Node.js app right here at the Heroku Dev Center.

Node.js and MongoLab on Windows Azure

By on 2013/02/19 in education, general, MongoDB, partnerships

(This tutorial was originally published on the Windows Azure documentation portal in January 2013)

Greetings, adventurers! Welcome to MongoDB-as-a-Service. Are you looking to create a Node.js Application on Windows Azure with MongoDB using the MongoLab Azure Store add-on?

In this tutorial you will:

  1. Provision the database – The Windows Azure Store MongoLab add-on will provide you with a MongoDB database hosted in the Windows Azure cloud and managed by MongoLab‘s cloud database platform.
  2. Create the app – It’ll be a simple Node.js app for maintaining a list of tasks.
  3. Deploy the app – By tying a few configuration hooks together, we’ll make pushing our code a breeze.
  4. Manage the database – Finally, we’ll show you MongoLab’s web-based database management portal where you can search, visualize, and modify data with ease.

At any time throughout this tutorial, feel free to kick off an email to support@mongolab.com if you have any questions. To complete this tutorial, you need a Windows Azure account that has the Windows Azure Web Sites feature enabled. You can create a free trial account and enable preview features in just a couple of minutes. For details, see the Create a Windows Azure account and enable preview features tutorial.

In addition, ensure that you have the following installed:
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