 Okay, we're back here live in San Francisco, California. This is theCUBE's SiliconANGLE, Wikibon's flagship program, John Furrier, Dave Vellante, Max Geerson, CEO of MongoDB, formerly called TenGen, which powered MongoDB now, officially the new name change. Max, welcome back to theCUBE, great to see you again. We see you again, thanks for having me. We see you on theCUBE all the time on our reruns. Your interviews in New York were fantastic. Great event. Thanks. You're a tech athlete, the company's exploding, unstructured data, not being stored in Oracle databases. Other data sources are out there powered by you guys. First of all, tell us kind of personally where you're at emotionally right now. Market's exploding, even more crazy. You're now seems then when we interviewed you last time at Oracle Open World two years ago. I mean, we're having a lot of fun. I think that I've been in the database business for 20 years now, and it's mostly been kind of boring, right, not a lot of change in the database industry for 20 years, but I liked it and I just kept doing it. And I think that customers are really ready for something new now, and it's exciting for us to be able to help enable our users to be more actual, to scale out more efficiently in cloud style architectures. We got a lot of work ahead of us, but we're really excited by the momentum. We're really excited by the growth and by the receptiveness of the market to new technologies. Let's talk about the name change. I mean, I love it, but what prompted it and why? It's just simpler, right? We had too many conversations that were, hi, I'm Max from TenGen, and they said, what's TenGen? And we're the MongoDB company. Oh, MongoDB, I know what that is, right? So we thought, why are we having these conversations? I am Max, I am MongoDB. That goes much better. Okay, so last time we saw you in New York, Jeff, Kelly and I were down there interviewing. Give us an update, what's new since we talked to you in, I guess it was May, June timeframe? Yeah, the enterprise momentum has been really strong. I think in New York, we saw a lot of bigger organizations, MetLife, Goldman Sachs, Telefonica out there talking about how they were using MongoDB and the impact it was having on their business. MetLife had been trying for years to get to a 360 degree view of their customer they did with MongoDB. And so as those stories have gotten out there, enterprise adoption is accelerating because more and more companies are saying, how can we do this? So those proof points in the enterprise have been great, a lot of momentum, and also a lot of work as we move into more enterprises to build more features around security, around management, around monitoring. We recently launched a backup service. So those types of product maturity features that we really need to add as we grow in a market that's been dominated by somebody over 30 years of product maturity. Max, one of the things I want to get your opinion on is you've been database for years. One of the things that's been the most explosive trend that David and I have talked to is both commoditizing and innovative is Amazon's cloud, right? Amazon has enabled massive innovation, at the same time it's commoditized and forced the big guys to get into the cloud era and you're seeing that now five, six years later, Oracle and these guys are, the big guys are now having to deal with the cloud. Now you guys really grew onto that. What is the big scale point on Amazon? Obviously you have outages concerns. People want to know, how do I avoid saving my clusters on Mongo and how do I balance the bare metal hosting and when I grow to a certain point and keep the cloud innovation going on? Because now people are getting to the point now where hey, I'm blowing it out on Amazon kicking butt. Now I got to say, okay, more scaling, a little bit different architecture. Can you talk about those two things, cluster support on Amazon, stability around outages and then also the balancing of moving to bare metal on-prem? Sure, sure. So I think, so first of all, we think that the movement to cloud style architecture is whether they're at Amazon or on-prem is an important trend that's here to stay and whether in fact those machines are virtualized or whether it's just leveraging a hundred and expensive commodity servers rather than a big scale up style server is absolutely a trend that's here to stay. I think customers are excited about it. It might not be as good for the hardware vendors but it's good for the rest of the industry and certainly for the customers. We grew up in that era. So in the early days, people certainly had some growing pains in the cloud. The IO performance that you'd get from EBS, for example, would not be predictable. We've had actually a good collaboration with Amazon in working through those issues with them, making sure that they understand what causes pain to our users in their environment. They've been very responsive around addressing those things. So now with the provisioned IOPS, with the ability to make sure that when they're going to bounce a machine, when you request a new instance, it's not going to be bounced on the same schedule. With a little bit of work, you can run very high performance, high performance, high availability clusters now. In Amazon, we have a lot of customers doing that. Successfully, I think for some, the decision to bring that in-house is really an economic decision on whether they can manage the hosting less expensively than Amazon come. In some cases, for certain sectors, a security issue as well. What about the conversation around big data, where it's always been all volume, big data as well. And yeah, machine data is fast data, but there's been a conversation in the community around, it's not about the volume, but variety. Absolutely. Talk about that dynamic, and really what does that mean, and how does that affect some of the decisions around what people decide to use for their data store, or which tool to use. Absolutely. I think the types of applications people are building today are very different than the applications people were building 20, 30, 40 years ago, when the relational database was coming onto the scene. A lot of the applications, accounts payable, accounts receivable that use very regular tabular data, have become very, very mature now. And as people search for competitive advantage, one of the sources of that competitive advantage is bringing more data into their applications, into their decision-making processes. So imagine someone, a stock analyst, 30, 40 years ago, they may have just cared about what's the PE ratio, what's the dividend yield, what's the market cap of the stock, stuff that fits simply in one spreadsheet. Nowadays, you see analyst reports where they're looking at the company's website for how many job postings they have. Scraping their, they're going out, talking to their channel about demand. They're bringing back a much richer set of data with which to do the analysis. And it's not a static set of data, they're constantly seeking to innovate and to bring new data into their process. And the relational database isn't well suited for that process, so that's what's exciting, I think, for our users and for us. And talk about the relationship with the developer community. When we were at MongoDB days, we started a collector in our little crowd spots tool. We're tracking 7,700 people. I get comments like this, it gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling in my heart to see Rails and MongoDB holding hands and walking off into the sunset. You see some of the topics that are trending in our community, it's Rails, it's Python, it's Node.js, it's PHP, it's JavaScript. It's the DevOps developer community, really what's happening. Talk about your relationship with that community. We think that community is really important. We think that the world is moving towards polyglot development, it's moving towards DevOps. It's moving towards more decisions happening at the developer level. It's moving more towards agility and to open source. And these are, I think, synergistic trends. So we think that that's a really, really important constituency, not just for us, but for the IT industry going forward. And we've made a big investment in the product, certainly. For example, in the developer experience team, we build drivers, not just for Java and .NET, but for Ruby and Python and PHP and Scala, about a dozen different drivers, Node.js, et cetera. So we build about a dozen, and then the community has also contributed another 20-odd drivers. So we feel like there's really good support for a bunch of different audiences. It's not just about getting it right for one, it's about appealing to those different communities to let people seamlessly move from language to language, to have something which balances being idiomatic, but also being reasonably standard across. It's a big engineering investment for us. And then we also invest a lot in just getting out there with the community, having our Mongo days around the world, getting to user groups, staying in touch with the community, making sure they understand what's new in MongoDB, where we're going, making sure we understand what they want, what they like, and what they don't like from what we've built so far. So a couple other pieces of developments anyway, since we last talked, you've announced MongoDB world in June, right? Where are you having that? In New York. Right, okay, so you decided to stay in New York, great move, because your customers, they're really good critical mass in New York. On the date set for that? Yeah, it's June, I forget what the actual date is, but sometime in June, the dates are firm, right? June 2014, sounds about right. And then the Pentaho deal that you guys did, open source data integration and BI, talk about what that's all about. Sure, we've been working with Pentaho, there's a lot of momentum around their tools, and they've been building some really good native integration to MongoDB, so that people can use their analytic tools on top of MongoDB, and the reception in a lot of customers, certainly in banking and in other industries, has been really, really positive. And I think that's important for us to have a strong tool set that works with MongoDB, we've been really pleased with the relationship with Pentaho, both at an engineering level, and working jointly to solve problems for customers. And then you also, I think you told us this, or somebody told us this back when we were at MongoDB days, you were going to open an India office, you opened that office, what's that all about? Why India, where in India, what's the role there? Sure, we've been expanding around the world, we've opened an office in India, we've opened an office in Singapore, we have an office in Australia, we're doing more in Japan, so a lot going on in Asia. Europe has been a little more established for us, we have a fairly large office in London, our international headquarters is in Dublin, we have an office in Germany, an office in Italy, an office in Spain, a Scandinavian office as well. Nation building. So I'm signing the international languages that I can't read to save my life, but the lawyers tell me they're okay to sign. The demand is there all around the world, so we've also been building the language skills on the team, building the 24-7 follow the sun support model, it's been a time of a lot of growth. A lot of build out. So what's that count now? A little over 300. Wow, still growing. I know you're on a tight deadline and get a huge international success, congratulations on the demand for new types of variety of data, obviously unstructured, what you guys have done, hit the nerve, great community, massive growth, a lot of contribution, a lot of open source, a lot of cloud support, a lot of mobile, the perfect storm for you guys, congratulations on that. Thank you. Final question or final comment I'll give you in the segment is share with the folks out there that are watching Oracle Open World, they might not be in the trenches with the open source community, that might not know Mongo. Share with them what they need to know about Mongo. What is it all about? Why are you guys so hot right now? And just, some of them have been sitting in a big company, I've heard of Mongo, and explain to them why, what they need to know about you guys. Sure, we designed MongoDB to solve two challenges with the relational database. We designed it to make it very easy to scale horizontally in cloud style architectures and we designed it to be very agile and productive for developers. And developers seem to really like it and a lot of momentum. And a lot of applications. So for developers it's for rapid development, great scale, MongoDB World June 23rd to 25th at the Sheridan Times Square. That's what's going on for you guys. Thank you, I should have remembered the date. Yeah, I just cut an instant message on my little, I guess this is my teleprompter, my Mac, but this is theCUBE. John Furrier, Dave Vellotti, next year's the CEO of MongoDB, one of the fastest growing open source projects, just exploding in value. A lot of developers success. Congratulations, we've been following you guys for quite some time. I'm really happy to see it, congratulations. We'll be right back with more coverage live from San Francisco after this short break.