Mongo’s DBaaS now available on Rackspace ObjectRocket

The fascinating thing about the `….as a Service’ trend that cloud has induced is the fact that just about anything that can be digitised can be turned into a service deliverable by cloud. And an increasingly common trend is for core application such as databases to find their way into the `….as a Service’ fold.

As CSW has covered already, Oracle’s widely used database and associated applications are now available as services, and now Rackspace Hosting has got in on the act by helping Mongo, one of the leading NoSQL databases, reach a wider market through the launch of ObjectRocket, its MongoDB Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), in its UK datacentre.

With the open source-based MongoDB solution, Rackspace will broaden its portfolio to offer European customers a NoSQL DBaaS for big data applications. This offering will be built upon hardware optimised specifically for MongoDB and easily accessed and integrated into existing systems.

“Rackspace’s work to establish a strong presence within the high-growth NoSQL database market has flourished since our acquisition of ObjectRocket back in February 2013. Bringing this technology to our local European customer base is integral to expanding the total service offering available from our UK data centre. We can now provide MongoDB with low latency, high-bandwidth proximity to our other cloud and hosting solutions,” said Nigel Beighton, VP Technology at Rackspace International.

ObjectRocket is a sharded and fully managed MongoDB service built with a set of tools and APIs designed to maximise uptime and reduce administration time - all provided with the backup of Rackspace’s Fanatical Support. It is highly scalable allowing it to grow with customers’ business needs. In addition, data is multiplexed across many physically separate systems – minimising the possibility of downtime in any eventuality.

Rackspace has precision-tuned its delivery of MongoDB to make it much faster for customers to use. As this offering now comes to the European market, customers will be able to benefit from a service that has been completely optimised for running MongoDB across all layers of the stack, from the network to the file system and the hardware.

It is essentially a power socket for applications; users just plug it into ObjectRocket and Rackspace manages all the scaling, sharding and performance of the database itself, freeing developer time to focus 100 percent on the application itself.

Customers will be able to choose from a range of transparent pricing plans based upon individual data storage requirements, and they can also have a one month free trial when they sign up online.