The company-developer DBMS MongoDB in a confidential manner submitted documents for IPO. The company's shares will start trading this year. MongoDB, working on the NoSQL model, is considered the successor of MySQL in the webscale segment.
MongoDB gathered for an IPO.
MongoDB, developer of the database management system (DBMS), applied for an initial public offering (IPO). This is reported with reference to the insider information resource TechCrunch. The company has already prepared the S-1 form, the IPO itself should be held before the end of 2017.. Rumors about the possible IPO MongoDB go for several years. In May, the Wall Street Journal wrote that the company hires investment specialists for him.
In the year 2008. MongoDB received $ 300 million from several major investors, including Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital and NEA. Two years ago, after the last investment round, the company was estimated at $ 1.6 billion.
MongoDB took advantage of the right of confidential filing for IPO, which was introduced in the US in April 2012. With the adoption of the law "On accelerated start-up of business start-ups" (JOBS Act). According to the law, start-ups can choose to privately submit documents and wait for a presentation for investors to disclose their finances. This allows them not to attract attention to the IPO almost until its very. Previously, this option was only available for large businesses, now it can be used and startups.
MongoDB Products.
The main product of the company is the document-oriented DBMS MongoDB, created in 2009. The DBMS is built on the NoSQL model and written in C ++. Other noteworthy features are open source, there is no need to describe schema tables and use JSON-type documents for data exchange. Documents are stored in the BSON format. Since this is not a relational database, it does not provide for such concepts as transaction and isolation.
Prospects and problems.
MongoDB products are used by companies such as Adobe software developer, eBay's trading platform and Craigslist's popular ads site. In 2012 year. The company agreed with Microsoft on installing its DBMS in the cloud Microsoft Azure. This provided an opportunity to run DBMS on Microsoft Azure virtual machines.
DBMS users note that in the segment of small Internet services MongoDB took the place that previously belonged to the MySQL relational database, which existed since 1995. At the moment, Oracle is developing it, which absorbed the former developer, Sun Microsystems, in 2009. The year before, Sun Microsystems bought out the original developer of this database, the Swedish company MySQL AB.
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Hackers launched a campaign to hack MongoDB database with subsequent data deletion and ransom requirement. At first it was a single action, performed by a hacker under the pseudonym Harak1r1. However, in January 2017. There were already 27 thousand. DBMS affected by the hands of 12 hacker groups. Owners of DBMS paid a ransom in the amount of 0.2 to 1 bitcoin, but this did not guarantee the return of data. According to cybersecurity researchers, there are about 99 thousand. Vulnerable MongoDB servers.