Key buyer advantages of the Microsoft and MongoDB expanded partnership

This publish was co-authored by Patrick McCluskey, Vice President at MongoDB.

As we welcome the period of AI, it’s vital to keep in mind that information is the gasoline that powers AI. With this understanding, it’s clear why our purpose is to make Azure the most effective vacation spot for information. In Azure, prospects profit from a complete portfolio of database merchandise together with relational, non-relational, open supply, and caching options. We’ve additionally established deep partnerships, just like the one now we have with MongoDB Inc., to allow digital transformation utilizing their databases as managed choices in Azure.

MongoDB is a number one information platform firm that offers builders an intuitive approach to mannequin their information. We’ve partnered with MongoDB for years however this yr we deepened our partnership considerably, culminating in a multiyear strategic partnership settlement. We’re extremely happy with the work we’ve executed collectively to make Azure a terrific place to run MongoDB Atlas. Previously six months alone, MongoDB has turn out to be one in every of our high performing Azure Market companions pushed by the adoption of the MongoDB Atlas on Azure pay-as-you-go self-service providing.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower everybody to attain extra, and we all know that our prospects like utilizing MongoDB to construct purposes. In yr one in every of our strategic partnership, we collaborated with MongoDB to make it even simpler for our joint prospects to do extra with Microsoft providers and MongoDB Atlas on Azure. We’ve enabled builders to make use of MongoDB Atlas in 40+ Azure areas globally—with our most up-to-date new location being in Doha, Qatar, which we introduced final month at our Ignite convention. And we all know it’s not simply in regards to the information middle, it’s additionally critically vital to make it straightforward for builders to get began with MongoDB Atlas on Azure. GitHub Copilot makes it straightforward to construct MongoDB purposes on Azure as a consequence of its proficiency in making code ideas and we’re working collectively to additional enhance GitHub Copilot’s efficiency utilizing MongoDB schema, amongst different issues.

See how MongoDB and GitHub Copilot come collectively on this video.

We’ve already seen prospects reaping the advantages of our strategic partnership. For instance, our joint work with Temenos helped to allow their banking prospects to achieve record-high scale. And in one other case, Mural, a collaborative intelligence firm, shared their expertise of constructing with MongoDB Atlas and Microsoft Azure to assist their prospects collaborate higher and smarter.

MongoDB at Microsoft Ignite 2023

We proceed to make investments to enhance the client expertise of working MongoDB Atlas on Azure. In November, at Microsoft Ignite 2023, Microsoft and MongoDB introduced three vital integrations: Microsoft Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Cloth, and Entity Framework (EF) Core. Let’s have a look at how prospects can profit from each.

1. Semantic Kernel is an open supply SDK that allows combining AI providers like OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Hugging Face with programming languages like C# and Python. At Ignite, MongoDB introduced native assist for MongoDB Atlas Vector Search in Semantic Kernel. MongoDB Atlas Vector Search permits prospects to combine operational information and vectors in a unified and totally managed platform. Now, prospects can use Semantic Kernel to include Atlas Vector Search in purposes. This permits, for instance, utilizing Atlas Vector Search to work together with retrieval-augmented era (RAG) of their work with massive language fashions (LLMs), thereby lowering the danger of AI hallucinations, amongst different advantages.
2. Microsoft Cloth can reshape how your groups work with information by bringing everybody collectively on a single, AI-powered platform constructed for the period of AI. MongoDB Atlas is the operational information layer for a lot of purposes, these prospects use MongoDB Atlas to retailer information from inner enterprise purposes, customer-facing providers, and third-party APIs throughout a number of channels. With connectors for Microsoft Cloth pipelines and Dataflow Gen2, our prospects can now mix MongoDB Atlas information with relational information from conventional purposes and unstructured information from sources like logs, clickstreams, and extra. At Microsoft Ignite, we noticed thrilling bulletins making this integration seamless and straightforward to make use of for MongoDB prospects. Throughout the first keynote, Microsoft introduced that Microsoft Cloth is now typically obtainable, and shared a brand new frictionless manner so as to add and handle current cloud information warehouses and databases, like MongoDB, in Cloth referred to as Mirroring. Now, MongoDB prospects can replicate a snapshot of their database to OneLake and OneLake will robotically maintain this duplicate in sync in close to real-time. You may learn extra on tips on how to unlock the worth of information in MongoDB Atlas with the clever analytics of Microsoft Cloth right here.
3. Tens of millions of builders rely upon C# to jot down their purposes, and a big proportion of those use Entity Framework (EF) Core, a light-weight, extensible, open supply and cross-platform model of the favored Entity Framework information entry expertise. MongoDB introduced that MongoDB Supplier for EF Core is now obtainable in Public Preview. This makes it potential for builders utilizing EF Core to construct C#/.NET purposes with MongoDB whereas persevering with to make use of their most well-liked APIs and design patterns.

In every case, we’ve labored intently with MongoDB to make sure builders, information engineers, and information scientists can simply join their MongoDB information to Microsoft providers.

A yr of strengthened collaboration

These new integrations comply with a banner yr of collaboration between Microsoft and MongoDB. Past Microsoft Ignite, we’ve shared quite a lot of wonderful developer information:

• The MongoDB for VS Code Extension was made typically obtainable in August 2023. VS Code is the world’s hottest built-in improvement surroundings (IDE), and builders downloaded the MongoDB extension over 1 million instances throughout its public preview. This free, downloadable extension makes it straightforward for builders to construct purposes and handle information in MongoDB straight from VS Code.
• MongoDB built-in with a spread of providers throughout the Microsoft Clever Knowledge Platform (MIDP), together with:
  • Azure Synapse Analytics, to make it simpler to research operational information
  • Microsoft Purview, so customers can connect with and safeguard MongoDB information
  • Energy BI, making it potential for information analysts to natively rework, analyze, and share dashboards that incorporate stay MongoDB Atlas information
  • Knowledge Federation: Atlas Knowledge Federation can now be deployed in Microsoft Azure and helps Microsoft Azure Blob Storage in personal preview.

• Collectively printed tutorials and extra protecting:

It has been a terrific yr for Microsoft and MongoDB, collectively making it simpler for organizations of all sizes to do extra with their information.

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