[curiousDog]

Sure, but why wouldn't you use one of the myriad of options offered by Google/Microsoft/Amazon? Dynamodb, BigTable, DocumentDb would be better options instead of betting on a startup, no? Their NoSQL tech was novel several years ago and not the cloud providers are far ahead and there's no way MongoDb will be able to catch up in-terms of Features, Scale, Reliability and Availability

[nrser]

I think all of those services are cloud-based, yeah?

Cloud services are a great option to have available, but there are many reasons organizations choose to manage their own instances... pre-existing infrastructure investment, flexibility, data location and control, cost structure, regulatory requirements, etc.

I read here that Mongo has started a cloud-based offering, but the core of their business competes against other self-managed storage software like MySQL, Postgres, Hadoop, etc.