MongoDB, the NoSQL darling of developers, aims to enhance scalability, analytics, security, and manageability in significant upgrade.

Application developers are the most important fans of MongoDB, however the vendor behind the product expects a primary generation, announced Tuesday, to spread the affection among database administrators, security experts, and people trying to extract analytics from the NoSQL database management system (DBMS).

The iteration, MongoDB 2.6, delivers significant improvements in scalability, performance, query planning, and safety features in addition a step up in management functionality, in keeping with the seller. Now five years old, MongoDB is an open-source product that has seen 7 million downloads and 1000’s of deployments. It’s widely hailed because the leading NoSQL DBMS available, nonetheless it doesn’t have a name for top scalability, a expect which competitors Cassandra, Couchbase, and Riak shine.

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MongoDB 2.6 upgrades user concurrency and connection pooling, so customers using “anything over several dozen severs will see significant improvements in performance,” based on Kelly Stirman, the corporate’s director of product marketing. What’s more, the company has introduced bulk operators for writes, so load, update, and delete operations are up to five times faster than within the previous release, he says.

Taking first steps toward sophisticated query planning capabilities, the two.6 release introduces index intersections to MongoDB, which makes it possible to prevent creating individual indexes or compound indexes for everything that you really want to question.

“The more indexes you’ll want to create, the costlier it can be to accomplish updates and other operations,” says Stirman. “The power to intersect indexes means developers shouldn’t have to do all of the planning up front, and it makes the system more efficient in its use of resources.”

Text search, previously in beta, is a built-in feature within the 2.6 release. Features include searching in 15 languages and an aggregation option that may be used to establish faceted navigation by product or color, for instance, on an e-commerce website.

Database incumbents was known to slam NoSQL security, but Stirman says MongoDB 2.6 delivers best-in-class safety features including authentication, auditing, field-level redaction, and other features that meet or exceed the strictest standards of huge organizations.

MongoDB is monitored and administered throughout the MongoDB Management Service (MMS), and the seller is introducing backup and point-in-time recovery improvements with the two.6 release. At the horizon is a wave of MMS automation features with a view to see public beta release in May. Automation will enable administrators to launch instances without coding and manage and upgrade existing deployments without taking them offline. Automated cloud support will start with Amazon EC2, but MongoDB plans so as to add OpenStack and IBM SoftLayer virtualization options. The automation features are expected to succeed in general availability within calendar year 2014.

“These automation features will provide power capabilities to quickly create and close down MongoDB systems, so we wish to be extremely conservative and ensure they’re thoroughly tested in a public beta,” says Stirman.

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