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In preparation for the release of MongoDB 2.6, the company decided to take a hard look at its core offerin, and decided it was time to re-engineer and refactor. The result has turned out to be major improvements to the MMS (MongoDB Management Service), changes to the database itself, and new enterprise-grade security features.

In the past five years, MongoDB has established a great reputation among developers. With the changes to MMS, MongoDB hopes to earn a similar cachet in management and operations. Having already convinced the developers to join its camp, MongoDB aims to show it can make life easy for admins as well.

With that goal in mind, MMS has undergone a sweeping upgrade to improve and simplify its functionality. To give you an idea of the scale of the changes being made, here are a few of the new features: continuous backup, point-in-time recovery, monitoring and alerts on 100-plus parameters, and hot upgrades. Are you drooling yet?

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