 Hi everybody, this is Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org and we're here at MongoDB Days. The MongoDB conference in New York City. The main host of course is TenGen who is building an ecosystem around MongoDB, the popular open source, no-sequel database. Running a lot of big data apps. We're going to be talking about that today. I'm here with my co-host, Jeff Kelly. Again, in the Big Apple, New York has surpassed Boston as many of you know as the number two venture-backed region in the United States and there's a lot of action here. TenGen itself is based in the old New York Times building along with Yahoo, of course, just bought Tumblr. A lot of action going on in New York. So Jeff, give us the quick lowdown on Mongo, what you're seeing out there in the marketplace and then we'll set up the day. Sure, well MongoDB is far and away the most popular no-sequel database with developers these days. It's commonly cited for its ease of use, the ability to really very easily build functional web and mobile applications. So again, very popular with developers. It's getting traction with a lot of startups, places like PoreSquare, Guilt, a company called Visible Gains and some others are using MongoDB and then of course we've got TenGen who's building a business around kind of commercializing MongoDB, really hardening it for the enterprise as well as contributing to the actual development of the abilities of the database itself. So that's kind of the foundation here of what we're starting today and of course TenGen is looking to move deeper into the enterprise. They've made some moves in the financial services sector recently with companies like MetLife, new customers, they've created a financial services advisory group that's really going to focus on how no-sequel technology can be applied in the financial services sector. So TenGen certainly making, getting into the enterprise and financial services part of their core agenda. So like O'Reilly Velocity where we were this week, a lot of developers here, a lot of guys in T-shirts, I joked that they know what this is. We heard from Mack Shireson today, Jeff, CEO of TenGen. They're up to, TenGen's up to 250 employees, including 100 engineers working on the product. He said our goal is to build the world's best open source no-sequel database. We'll ask him what he means by that, how he defines best. They've trained, you told me, that 70,000 people have downloaded or participated in the training. Signed up for the training. Many participated. And unlike many companies, the training from TenGen is free of charge. So that's a big differentiator, they're not monetizing training. So we're going to be breaking it down all day. We've got practitioners, we've got folks from TenGen coming on, the MongoDB community, and we're going to start off with some folks from New York, the co-founders of Hack New York. So keep it right there, this is Dave Vellante with Jeff Kelly. This is theCUBE, Silicon Angles, day-long production of MongoDB days. We'll be right back after this word.