MongoDB 30,000 downloads a month?

[Tony Bain]

Image by Cesar Rodas via FlickrWhile I have written about NoSQL generating a lot of buzz recently I have also written that when compared with the activity that is occurring day in, day out on relational databases it is very...

Image by Cesar Rodas via Flickr

While I have written about NoSQL generating a lot of buzz recently I have also written that when compared with the activity that is occurring day in, day out on relational databases it is very minor.* I would suggest those working with NoSQL databases are still a fraction of a percent of those working with more traditional relational databases.

Which is why I was surprised to read recently over on Intelligent Enterprises blog an interview with 10gen founder Dwight Merriman:

“When his company first started making MongoDB available for free downloads last year, they numbered a few hundred a month. But traffic has rapidly built up to a level of 30,000 downloads a month, he said.”

This high number peaked my interest so I quickly did a little checking on the MongoDB site.* Couldn’t find any download stats but I did notice some stats relating to the number of people who had signed up to the support forums:

• The* mongodb-user Google group has 1682 members
• The mongodb-announce group, the “This group is for releases and important updates to MongoDB that anyone running MongoDB in production* should subscribe to” has 53 members.
• The MongoDB site blog has 916 subscribers in Google Reader

I could be wrong and the figure might be accurate, but perhaps this may have actually been page views on the MongoDB site rather than software downloads?* It if is accurate then I will take my hat off to 10gen, they have come much further than I thought.

I am one of the biggest proponents of “the right tool for the right job”, and I think NoSQL databases can be the right tool in a lot of cases.* But we need to keep our heads about us also.* We still have a very long way to go before any of this NoSQL stuff is considered mildly mainstream.

BTW, I will ping Charles Babbock for comment.

* Edit: I have removed the MySQL stuff.* MySQL has 70,000 downloads a day





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