The backbone of MongoDB Inc is its NoSQL database, released as an open source project in 2009 and which began seeing considerable adoption almost immediately. Three years after the release it made a ninth place showing on The Wall Street Journal’s “The Next Big Thing 2012” list and by 2014, when I spoke with co-founder and board chairperson, Dwight Merriman, the DB was already driving the back ends at Craigslist, eBay, SourceForge, Viacom, the New York Times and others.
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