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In memory MongoDB concurrency testing on ObjectRocket
A few weeks ago the folks at Memsql introduced a new benchmark to show off the performance of their new product named ‘bench’. They included a MongoDB option in the benchmark, and a blog post with some...
View ArticleObjectRocket Sneak Peek
We thought we would expose a bit of of what we have been working on at ObjectRocket. Let’s take it from the top. ObjectRocket is a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) based on the popular MongoDB database....
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Connecting to ObjectRocket
There are a few easy ways to connect and interact with the ObjectRocket database service. The first step is to create an instance using the instance/create instance button. When you create an instance...
View ArticleNew Standard Plan; 5GB instances $149/mo.
We are excited to announce our new 5GB plan size pricing. We received customer requests for a very low cost and smaller initial shard size. Well, here you go. For $149/mo you get 5GB of pre-configured...
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1GB instances; $29/mo!
We are very happy to release our new 1GB plan size. This new smaller plan size is great for folks who want a sharded environment or want to test out sharding but don’t want to take on the task of...
View ArticleObjectRocket Launches Premium MongoDB Cloud Service
PLEASANTON, Calif. — Jan. 15, 2013 — ObjectRocket today announced the launch of its easy-to-use, consistently fast and scalable MongoDB database-as-a-service (DBaaS). The solution is backed by...
View ArticleMongoDB and piles of SSD’s
In mid 2011 we started playing around with MongoDB on Solid State Disk. We played with various configurations, using flashcache , using SSD for just the journal, or for just the oplog, or both, or even...
View ArticleObjectRocket Joins the Rackspace Family
The ObjectRocket team has had one core focus from the start – to give developers the ability to create great applications on top of a premium MongoDB platform, all while enjoying industry leading...
View ArticleFirst 30 days as Rackers
We just wanted to give an update on what has been happening since we announced we are being acquired by Rackspace. It’s been almost a month now. We have been hard at work and it seemed like a good time...
View ArticleSecurity Vulnerability, ObjectRocket patches
A zero day MongoDB security vulnerability (CVE-2013-1892) was discovered by the folks at SCRT. 10gen has patched Mongodb to fix this issue. ObjectRocket is integrating this patch into our version of...
View ArticleWe’re Live in the Rackspace Chicago Datacenter!
The ObjectRocket team has had a busy few weeks rolling out new capacity, and now we’re very happy to announce that ObjectRocket instances are available directly in the Rackspace Chicago (ORD)...
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Profiler Deep Dive presentation from MongoSF 2013
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player The presentation slides are also available on Github. ObjectRocket Founder, Kenny Gorman, will present a deep dive into the MongoDB profiler....
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MongoNYC 2013 post conference report
10gen has been doing MongoDB events for years now, and I have attended quite a few of them. The events have always been great. However, I have to say this years MongoNYC was particularly amazing. I...
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Balancer ease of use enhancements
The latest release of the ObjectRocket UI now has additional enhancements to make managing the MongoDB balancer painless. Each ObjectRocket instance automatically scales, it does so by sensing when...
View ArticleEasy Scalability; how we do it.
ObjectRocket was built on the core premise of enabling simple and reliable scalability for MongoDB. At it’s core, ObjectRocket utilizes MongoDB’s native scaling architecture called sharding. But it’s a...
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Appboy Scales Horizontally With ObjectRocket MongoDB
Leading Mobile Relationship Management Platform Appboy Scales Horizontally With ObjectRocket MongoDB By Jon Hyman, Appboy Appboy is a relationship management platform for publishers with mobile apps....
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Tapping Scalability (And Good Beer) With ObjectRocket And MongoDB
Beer is a social drink. And Untappd helps make it a truly global celebration. Untappd is a social network for beer lovers where users can rate, share and track the beers they’ve had, want to have and...
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ObjectRocket, now in the UK
ObjectRocket is now available in the LON datacenter. It’s been about a year since we’ve become a part of the Rackspace team, and in that time we’ve experienced a phenomenal amount of growth on all...
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ObjectRocket is hot in HongKong
We are proud to announce availability in the HongKong (HKG) datacenter. In February we added our London (LON) datacenter and now we are excited to serve customers in Asia. This is just the latest step...
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