MongoDB history

Pretty quickly, the market reacted and gave them indicators that they were not the only ones experiencing this problem; in 2008 they open-sourced MongoDB and began focusing all of their energy around the maintenance, development, and support of the project.

In February 2009, 10gen released MongoDB as an open source project.

MongoDB 1.4 (March 2010) introduced background index creation and MongoDB 1.6 (August 2010) introduced some major features such as production ready sharding for horizontal scaling, replica sets with automatic failover and IPv6 support.

Even until late 2011, the only product offerings that Mongo advertised on their website were support, professional services, and training for the open-source project itself:

MongoDB 2.2 release(August 2012) introduced aggregation pipeline enabling multiple data processing steps as a chain of operations.

By the time 2013 rolled around, 10gen had started to dip its toes into a new collection of subscription products and offered a few additional features alongside their existing support, services, and training offerings.

On August 5, 2014, Dev Ittycheria was appointed president and chief executive officer.

Moving into 2015, Mongo had simplified the packaging of its offerings significantly.

In early 2016, Mongo introduced a more service-heavy offering called MongoDB Professional.

The company’s shares began trading on October 19th, 2017 on the NASDAQ at $24/share.