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The value of MongoDB is how much Larry Ellison is willing to pay for them. That is that.

Cannot be emphasised enough. Less than 1% of Oracle's market cap; and pretty sure they could complete their offering with a NoSQL database.

Exactly: Oracle will first try to write the code and if that does not work Oracle will write a check.

Oracle already has a NoSQL database, and from what I hear, it's pretty good: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/nosqldb/overview/...

Yeah. They came in once and tried to sell us on it. Wasn't all that interesting honestly and I believe we'll keep on using Couchbase.