Why MongoDB is worth $1.2 billion

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11 pointsfelixr4 comments

Not only is MongoDB considerably lower in cost than Oracle, but adding nodes to a MongoDB cluster is an exercise in simplicity.

It was my understanding that MongoDB scales poorly.

Not to mention, considerably lower in cost means considerably less revenue. How exactly is that supposed to be justification for a high valuation? Especially when NoSQL databases are a fairly small niche compared to RDBMS, so it's not really possible to make up the difference in volume.

Comparing MongoDB to Oracle? Really? Next thing you know we'll be reading articles about how oranges are threatening to take significant market share from apples.

As for, "[Oracle] also does not affordably scale to the tens or hundreds of terabytes required by some", an honest question: if scaling to "tens or hundreds of terabytes" is so easy with MongoDB, why is scaling to 100GB a big enough deal to warrant a presentation[1]?

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/mongodb/partner-webinar-the-scalin...

I view this as they have Oracle to thank for there being such a large database market independent of the big ERP and hardware vendors. And for that, you do have to thank Uncle Larry.

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