How does MongoDB still have that much available to spend? Everyone I know moved off it years ago.
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MongoDB acquires Voyage AI
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#12How does MongoDB still have that much available to spend? Everyone I know moved off it years ago.
Because they are web-scale obviously.
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#13How does MongoDB still have that much available to spend? Everyone I know moved off it years ago.
that’s what I thought, but every single candidate I interviewed mentioned MongoDB as their recent reference document database, I asked the last candidate if they were self-hosting, the answer is no, they used MongoDB cloud.
I self host a handful of mongodb deployments for personal projects and manage self hosted mongo deployments of almost a hundred nodes for some companies. Atlas can get very expensive if you need good IO.
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#14How does MongoDB still have that much available to spend? Everyone I know moved off it years ago.
We use it a lot for a specific use-case and it works great. Mongo has come a long long way since the release over a decade ago, and if you keep it in Majority Read and Write, it's very reliable.
Also, on some things, it allows us to pivot much faster. And now with the help of LLMs, writing "Aggregation Pipelines" are very fast.
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#15Voyage AI post: https://blog.voyageai.com/2025/02/24/joining-mongodb/
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#16How does MongoDB still have that much available to spend? Everyone I know moved off it years ago.
Well, it's referred to as a cash-and-stock deal but I can't find any more detail about how much is stock:
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4412466-mongodb-acquires-voyag...
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#17Voyage AI post: https://blog.voyageai.com/2025/02/24/joining-mongodb/
and the mongo blog post for how it will be used: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/redefining-database-ai-why...
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#18Only skimmed through the release..I hope they continue supporting the API but it comes with a little higher confidence that the company behind it is not collecting all your data. Voyage has some interesting embedding models that I have been hesitant to fully utilize due to the lack of confidence in the startup behind it.
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#19How does MongoDB still have that much available to spend? Everyone I know moved off it years ago.
$2.3B in cash as of last quarter
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#20what's the calculus here? if i'm a developer choosing a low-level primitive such as a database, i'm likely quite opinionated on which models i use.