MongoDB Atlas Database Service

MongoDB Atlas is a fully managed multi-cloud database service for MongoDB, the popular document-oriented database. Developed by MongoDB Inc., founded in 2007 by Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, and Kevin Ryan. Went public on Nasdaq in October 2017 (ticker: MDB). Serves over 47,000 customers including Forbes, Toyota, Sega. Key features: fully managed: automated provisioning, scaling, backups, monitoring, upgrades. No DBA required. Multi-cloud: deploy on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure. Choose providers and regions. Multi-cloud clusters spanning multiple providers. Global clusters: distribute data geographically with zone-based sharding. Automated scaling: auto-scale storage, compute, read replicas. No downtime. Atlas Search: full-text search powered by Apache Lucene. Synonym mapping, custom analyzers, faceted search. Data Lake: query data in S3 using MongoDB Query Language. No ETL. App Services (formerly Realm): serverless backend with authentication, data sync, functions, triggers, HTTP endpoints. Triggers: database triggers (react to changes) and scheduled (cron-based). Device Sync: real-time sync between database and clients. Offline-first. Vector Search: semantic search using vector embeddings for AI. Charts: visualize data without extraction. Security: AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS in transit, VPC peering, private endpoints, LDAP, Kerberos, RBAC. Point-in-time recovery. Serverless: pay-per-use instances scaling to zero. Monitoring and alerts. C++/Go. Proprietary.