Microsoft opens up DocumentDB code and donates it to the Linux Foundation

DocumentDB is a MongoDB-compatible document database based on PostgreSQL from Microsoft and already used to power the Azure Cosmos DB database. Earlier this year, Microsoft open-sourced DocumentDB to provide a fully open-source, MongoDB-compatible document database.

To everyone's surprise, Microsoft released DocumentDB under the more permissive MIT license, which allows developers and organizations to integrate it into their solutions without restrictions. Within a week of open-sourced development, the DocumentDB project had 1000 stars on GitHub, 50 forks, and a ton of pull requests.

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DocumentDB has become popular among developers as it offers a native implementation of a document-oriented NoSQL database, supporting CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on BSON (Binary JSON) data types within a PostgreSQL framework. In addition, DocumentDB supports full-text searches, geospatial queries, and vector search.

So today, Microsoft announced that DocumentDB is becoming part of the Linux Foundation.

The company hopes this move will create an open standard for NoSQL databases. Microsoft said it is committed to 100% compatibility with MongoDB drivers to ensure the best of the document database ecosystem.

Management of the DocumentDB project by the Linux Foundation will ensure vendor neutrality and maintain DocumentDB's commitment to being PostgreSQL-first.

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