Several customer conversations at MongoDB World, which was held in Chicago this year, reaffirmed my conviction that there is a burning need for an enterprise class backup and recovery solution for MongoDB databases. Although MongoDB is one of the top five most popular databases according to DB-Engines, the backup and recovery capabilities are inadequate. The ecosystem around the database is not mature as well and hence there is a dearth of viable solutions.
This lack of enterprise-ready data protection has led several customers to delve on their own in developing a scripted solution from scratch. Most times, such efforts end up in investing significant time and resources without producing a resilient and reliable solution. In fact, I chatted with a large financial institution and a healthcare organization, both of whom were struggling to handle the backup and archival of their large MongoDB environments. On the other hand, a technology organization was using the backup-as-a-service (Cloud Manager) provided by MongoDB but was concerned about data security, astronomical costs and long recovery time.
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