Case-study on how industries are using MongoDB.

MongoDB is a relatively new contender in the data storage circle compared to giants like Oracle and IBM DB2, but it has gained huge popularity with their distributed key value store, MapReduce calculation capability and document oriented NoSQL features. For more information on MongoDB’s popularity and advantages refer for Big Data processing

MongoDB has been rightfully acclaimed as the DBMS of the year by DB-Engines.

Along with these features, MongoDB has numerous advantages when compared to the traditional RDBMS. As a result, lot of companies are looking for MongoDB certified professionals to employ MongoDB database. Here is a look at some of the real world use cases, where organisations, if not entirely, are including it at least as an addition to their existing databases.

Aadhar

Adhar is an excellent example of real world use cases of MongoDB. In recent times, there has been some controversy revolving around CIA’s non-profit Venture Capital arm, In-Q-Tel, backing the company, which developed MongoDB. Putting aside the controversy, let’s look at the MongoDB’s role in Aadhar.

India’s Unique Identification project, aka Aadhar, is the world’s biggest biometrics database. Aadhar is in the process of capturing demographic and biometric data of over 1.2 billion residents. Aadhar has used MongoDB as one of its databases to store this huge amount of data. MongoDB was among several database products, apart from MySQL, Hadoop and HBase, originally procured for running the database search. Here, MySQL is used for storing demographic data and MongoDB is used to store images. According to techcrunch.com, MongoDB has nothing to do with the “sensitive” data.