MongoDB Q1 Download Numbers

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April 26, 2010
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The MongoDB team is very excited about how the developer community is building around MongoDB, and we wanted to share some numbers.

These are download numbers for the core server for January through March. It is exactly the number of downloads of the core database from downloads.mongodb.org minus all bots (all known plus anything with bot in the user-agent) and all other crawlers we determine. We use these numbers internally, so we do try and keep them accurate.

January    15647
February  23226
March      37144

We are very excited about these numbers – please spread the word and help us continue growth of MongoDB!

-Eliot

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