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Commerce at Scale: Zepto Reduces Latency by 40% With MongoDB

Zepto is one of the fastest-growing Indian startups and a pioneer in introducing quick commerce to India. Quick commerce, sometimes referred to as “Q-commerce” is a new, faster form of e-commerce promising ultra-quick deliveries, typically in less than one hour. Founded in July 2021, Zepto has revolutionized the Indian grocery delivery industry, offering users a choice of over 15,000 products with a promised 10-minute delivery. Since its launch, the company has rapidly expanded its operations, recording 20% monthly growth and achieving annualized sales of $1.5 billion by July 2024. Zepto’s order processing and delivery system is instrumental in meeting its promise to customers. Zepto’s system routes new orders to a “dark store,” where bleeding-edge assignment systems help pack orders in under 75 seconds. A proprietary navigation system ensures riders can then deliver these orders promptly. As Zepto expanded, its monolithic infrastructure, based on a relational SQL database, could not achieve the scalability and operational efficiency the company needed. Zepto changed the game by turning to MongoDB Atlas . Mayank Agarwal, Senior Architect at Zepto, shared the company’s journey with MongoDB during a presentation at MongoDB.local Bengaluru in September 2024 . “We had a big monolith. All the components were being powered by PostgreSQL and a few Redis clusters,” said Agarwal. “As our business was scaling, we were facing a lot of performance issues, as well as restrictions in terms of the velocity at which we wanted to operate.” Zepto’s legacy architecture posed four key issues: Performance bottlenecks: As Zepto grew, the need for complex database queries increased. These queries required multiple joins, which put a significant strain on the system, resulting in high CPU usage and an inability to provide customers and delivery partners with accurate data. Latency: Zepto needed its API response times to be fast. However, as the system grew, background processing tasks slowed down. This led to delays and caused the system to serve stale data to customers. A need for real-time analytics: Teams on the ground, such as packers and riders, required real-time insights on stock availability and performance metrics. Building an extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline for this was both time-consuming and resource-intensive. Increased data scaling requirements: Zepto’s data was growing exponentially. Managing it efficiently became increasingly difficult, especially when real-time archival and retrieval were required. MongoDB Atlas meets Zepto’s goals “We wanted to break our monolith into microservices and move to a NoSQL database . But we wanted to evaluate multiple databases,” said Agarwal. Zepto was looking for a document database that would let its team query data even when the documents were structured in a nested fashion. The team also needed queryability on array-based attributes or columns. MongoDB fulfilled both use cases. “Very optimally, we were able to do some [proofs of concept]. The queries were very performant, given the required indexes we had created, and that gave us confidence,” said Agarwal. “The biggest motivation factor was when we saw that MongoDB provides in-memory caching , which could address our huge Redis cluster that we couldn’t scale further.” Beyond scalability, MongoDB Atlas also provided high reliability and several built-in capabilities. That helped Zepto manage its infrastructure day to day, and create greater efficiencies for both its end users and its technical team. Speaking alongside Agarwal at MongoDB.local Bengaluru, Kshitij Singh, Technical Lead for Zepto, explained: “When we discovered MongoDB Atlas, we saw that there were a lot of built-in features like the MongoDB chat support , which gave us very qualitative insights whenever we faced any issues. That was an awesome experience for us.” Data archival , sharding support , and real-time analytic capabilities were also key in helping the Zepto team improve operational efficiencies. With MongoDB, Zepto was able to deploy new features more quickly. Data storage at the document level meant less management overhead and faster time to market for new capabilities. Furthermore, MongoDB’s archival feature made it easier for Zepto to manage large datasets. The feature also simplified the setup of secondary databases for ETL pipelines, reducing the heavy lifting for developers. “You go on the MongoDB Atlas platform and can configure archival in just one click,” said Singh. Zepto reduces latency, handles six times more traffic, and more The results of migrating to MongoDB Atlas were immediate and significant: Zepto saw a 40% reduction in latency for some of its most critical APIs, which directly improved the customer experience. Postmigration, Zepto’s infrastructure could handle six times more traffic than before, without any degradation in performance. This scalability enabled the company to continue its rapid growth without bottlenecks. Page load times improved by 14% , leading to higher conversion rates and increased sales. MongoDB’s support for analytical nodes helped Zepto segregate customer-facing workloads from internal queries. This ensured that customer performance was never compromised by internal reporting or analytics. “MongoDB is helping us grow our business exponentially,” said Agarwal at the end of his presentation. Visit our product page to learn more about MongoDB Atlas.

December 17, 2024

IntellectAI Unleashes AI at Scale With MongoDB

IntellectAI , a business unit of Intellect Design Arena , is a trailblazer in AI. Since 2019 the company has been using MongoDB to drive a number of innovative use cases in the banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) industry. For example, Intellect Design Arena’s broader insurance business has been using MongoDB Atlas as a foundation for its architecture. Atlas’s flexibility enables Intellect Design Arena to manage varied and constantly evolving datasets and increase operational performance. Check out our AI Learning Hub to learn more about building AI-powered apps with MongoDB. Building on this experience, the company looked at deepening its use of MongoDB Atlas’s unique AI and search capabilities for its new IntellectAI division. IntellectAI Partner and Chief Technology Officer Deepak Dastrala spoke on the MongoDB.local Mumbai stage in September 2024 . Dastrala shared how the company has built a powerful, scalable, and highly accurate AI platform-as-a-service offering, Purple Fabric , using MongoDB Atlas and Atlas Vector Search . Using AI to generate actionable compliance insights for clients Purple Fabric helps transform enterprise data into actionable AI insights and solutions by making data ready for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). The platform collects and analyzes structured and unstructured enterprise data, policies, market data, regulatory information, and tacit knowledge to enable its AI Expert Agent System to achieve precise, goal-driven outcomes with accuracy and speed. A significant part of IntellectAI’s work involves assessing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) compliance. This requires companies to monitor diverse nonfinancial factors such as child labor practices, supply chain ethics, and biodiversity. “Historically, 80% to 85% of AI projects fail because people are still worried about the quality of the data. With Generative AI, which is often unstructured, this concern becomes even more significant,” said Deepak Dastrala. According to Deepak Dastrala, the challenge today is less about building AI tools than about operationalizing AI effectively. A prime example of this is IntellectAI’s work with one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, which manages over $1.5 trillion across 9,000 companies. The fund sought to utilize AI for making responsible investment decisions based on millions of unique data points across those companies, including compliance, risk prediction, and impact assessment. This included processing both structured and unstructured data to enable the fund to make informed, real-time decisions. “We had to process almost 10 million documents in more than 30 different data formats—text and image—and correlate both structured and unstructured data to provide those particular hard-to-find insights,” said Dastrala. “We ingested hundreds of millions of vectors across these documents, and this is where we truly understood the power of MongoDB.” For example, by leveraging MongoDB's capabilities, including time series collections, IntellectAI simplifies the processing of unstructured and semi-structured data from companies' reports over various years, extracting key performance metrics and trends to enhance compliance insights. “MongoDB Atlas and Vector Search give us flexibility around the schema and how we can turn particular data into knowledge,” Dastrala said. For Dastrala, there are four unique advantages of working with MongoDB—particularly using MongoDB Atlas Vector Search—that other companies should consider when building long-term AI strategies: a unified data model, multimodality, dynamic data linking, and simplicity. “For me, the unified data model is a really big thing because a stand-alone vector database will not help you. The kind of data that you will continue to ingest will increase, and there are no limits. So whatever choices that you make, you need to make the choices from the long-term perspective,” said Dastrala. Delivering massive scale, driving more than 90% AI accuracy, and accelerating decision-making with MongoDB Before IntellectAI built this ESG capability, its client relied on subject matter experts, but they could examine only a limited number of companies and datasets and were unable to scale their investigation of portfolios or information. “If you want to do it at scale, you need proper enterprise support, and that’s where MongoDB became really handy for us. We are able to give 100% coverage and do what the ESG analysts were able to do for this organization almost a thousand times faster,” said Dastrala. Previously, analysts could examine only between 100 and 150 companies. With MongoDB Atlas and Atlas Vector Search, Purple Fabric can now process information from over 8,000 companies across the world, covering different languages and delivering more than 90% accuracy. “Generally, RAG will probably give you 80% to 85% accuracy. But in our case, we are talking about a fund deciding whether to invest billions or not in a company, so the accuracy should be 90% minimum,” said Dastrala. “What we are doing is not ‘simple search’; it is very contextual, and MongoDB helps us provide that high-dimension data.” Concluding the presentation speech on the MongoDB.local stage, Dastrala reminded the audience why IntellectAI is using MongoDB’s unique capabilities to support its long-term vision: “Multimodality is very important because today we are using text and images, but tomorrow we might use audio, video, and more. And don’t forget, from a developer perspective, how important it is to keep the simplicity and leverage all the options that MongoDB provides.” This is just the beginning for IntellectAI and its Purple Fabric platform. “Because we are doing more and more with greater accuracy, our customers have started giving us more problems to solve. And this is absolutely happening at a scale [that] is unprecedented,” said Dastrala. Using MongoDB Atlas to drive broader business benefits across Intellect Design The success encountered with the Purple Fabric platform is leading Intellect Design’s broader business to look at MongoDB Atlas for more use cases. Intellect Design is currently in the process of migrating more of its insurance and Wealth platforms onto MongoDB Atlas, as well as leveraging the product family to support the next phase of its app modernization strategy. Using MongoDB Atlas, Intellect Design aims to improve resilience, support scalable growth, decrease time to market, and enhance data insights. Head over to our product page to learn more about MongoDB Atlas . To learn more about how MongoDB Atlas Vector Search can help you build or deepen your AI and search capabilities, visit our Vector Search page . Want to learn more about why MongoDB is the best choice for supporting modern AI applications? Check out our on-demand webinar, “ Comparing PostgreSQL vs. MongoDB: Which is Better for AI Workloads ? ” presented by MongoDB Field CTO, Rick Houlihan.

December 12, 2024

Goodnotes Finds Marketplace Success Using MongoDB Atlas

In the fast-paced world of app development, creating a feature-rich digital marketplace that scales effectively can be challenging. Goodnotes was founded in 2010 with the aim of replacing traditional paper notebooks with a digital alternative that reimagines the note-taking experience. Since then, the app has gone through several iterations and grown in popularity, now with more than 24 million monthly active users and 2.5 billion notes. The team behind Goodnotes spoke at MongoDB.local Hong Kong in September 2024. They shared their journey of using MongoDB Atlas and MongoDB Atlas Search to build and run a comprehensive marketplace that expands the company’s offerings, catering to its growing number of content creators. “At the beginning of 2023, we launched a pop-up shop, which was a very simple version of the marketplace, to test the water, and we realized it got really popular,” said Xing Dai, Principal Backend Engineer at Goodnotes. The full Goodnotes Marketplace launched in August 2024 as a space where content creators can enhance their note-taking experience by purchasing additional content, such as planners, stickers, and textbooks. Building a robust digital marketplace with MongoDB Atlas “The first and the most difficult challenge [was] that we are a multiplatform app, and if you want to launch on multiple platforms, you need to support different app stores as well as [the] web,” said Dai. Using MongoDB Atlas, Dai’s team created a fully configurable marketplace that would be accessible on different mobile and desktop platforms and the web. The initial pop-up shop’s infrastructure consisted of a Payload content management system connected to a MongoDB database. However, building a full-fledged marketplace was more challenging. The architecture needed to be scalable and include search, ordering, and customization capabilities. “With [MongoDB] Atlas, it was really easy to add the in-app purchase and build the subscription infrastructure to manage the purchase workflow,” said Dai. The Goodnotes team introduced NestJS—a JavaScript API framework—to build client APIs. It then developed a user-friendly portal for the operations team and for creators who want to upload new products. Finally, the team built a full event-based data pipeline on top of MongoDB. “What’s nice is that everything on the marketplace is actually configurable in the backend,” said Dai. “We don’t need to do anything other than configuring what we need to store in the database, and the iOS client will connect it to the backend.” “When we want to extend the marketplace to other platforms, nothing needs to be changed,” Dai added. “We only need to configure different shops for different platforms.” This means that Goodnotes can easily make its marketplace available on different app platforms, such as Apple and Android, and on the web. Adding searches, charts, and soon AI As Goodnotes added more products to its marketplace, users had difficulty finding what they wanted. Despite having limited resources, the Goodnotes team endeavored to build a comprehensive search function. Using MongoDB Atlas Search and MongoDB Atlas Triggers , the team built a search function that would generate the search view collection by-products and attributes, combining them into one collection. The team then added an Atlas Search index for the search field with an API exposing the search. “We also added an auto-complete function, which is very similar to search, in the sense that we just had to create a function to generate aggregated collections, trigger it using [MongoDB] Atlas Triggers, and add the index and expose it in the marketplace,” said Dai. The search function is now popular among marketplace users, making it quick and easy for them to find what they are looking for. Goodnotes also regularly uses MongoDB Atlas Charts . For example, it creates charts showing how many products there are in the system over time. One of the key next steps for Goodnotes involves using generative AI to translate product descriptions and content into different languages (the app is currently available in 11 languages). The team also wants to introduce personalized recommendations for a more tailored experience for each user. Ending the MongoDB.local presentation, Dai said: “MongoDB made it very fast and easy to build the whole marketplace and our search feature on top of the database using [MongoDB] Atlas Search. The solution scales, and so far we haven’t had any performance issues.” Visit our product page to learn more about MongoDB Atlas .

December 10, 2024

MongoDB Helps Asian Retailers Scale and Innovate at Speed

More retailers across ASEAN are looking to the document database model to support the expansion of their businesses and respond quickly to ever-more-rapidly changing customer demands. Here are two stories shared during our MongoDB.local events in Indonesia and Malaysia in September 2024. Simplicity and offline availability: EasyEat empowers merchants to optimize dining experiences with MongoDB Atlas EasyEat delivers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) point-of-sale (POS) system tailored for restaurants. It simplifies daily operations, optimizes costs, and enhances customer satisfaction for merchants that provide food delivery and pickup services. The platform launched in 2020, and in less than 4 years it has grown to serve over 1,300 merchants and over four million consumers across Malaysia and Indonesia. Speaking at MongoDB.local Kuala Lumpur in September 2024 , Deepanshu Rawat, Engineering Manager at EasyEat, explained how MongoDB Atlas empowered EasyEat to rapidly scale its operations across both the merchant POS and consumer applications. EasyEat’s move from a SQL database to MongoDB Atlas also delivered greater flexibility, enabling faster product development and ease of use for the engineering team. For EasyEat, MongoDB Atlas is more than just a database. The retailer is making full use of the developer data platform’s unique features, including: Analytics node: EasyEat must regularly provide reports to its merchants. These queries tend to be complex, taking significant time to process and putting an excessive load on the system. “With MongoDB Atlas’s analytics node , we are able to process those heavy queries without it impacting our daily operations,” said Rawat. Atlas Triggers: EasyEat uses this feature to perform a range of asynchronous operations. “Using Atlas Triggers helps us optimize the performance of our applications,” said Rawat. MongoDB Atlas Search: EasyEat has started using MongoDB Atlas Search to execute faster and more efficient searches as its platform’s user base grows. “Atlas Search enables us to make searches in our user application very smooth, and on our end, we don’t face any delay or latency issues,” said Rawat. In addition, EasyEat is exploring a few other capabilities on MongoDB, including online archiving . The company is also considering how it can use generative AI via MongoDB Atlas Vector Search to build a personalized recommendations engine. From 10 seconds to 1: Alfamart drives 1,000% efficiency using MongoDB Atlas Alfamart is a leading retailer with over 19,000 stores across Indonesia and the Philippines. It serves 18.1 million customers and handles approximately 4.6 million retail transactions daily. Speaking at MongoDB.local Jakarta in September 2024 , Alfamart’s Chief Technology Officer, Bambang Setyawan Djojo, shared insights into how the company has used MongoDB Atlas to sustain massive scale and to power its digital transformation. The 2015-2020 period was critical for Alfamart. It was in the midst of rapid expansion and had an ambitious digital transformation agenda. In early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began, Alfamart’s offline transactions plummeted while its online transactions soared. “The growth of online transactions was not linear but exponential,” said Setyawan Djojo. “This was the moment: We knew we needed the tools to adapt quickly and go to market fast. This is when we decided to look for a new database.” With its previous SQL database, Alfamart struggled to handle the growing data load, particularly during peak hours. MongoDB Atlas’s flexible document database model delivered greater efficiency for Alfamart’s team of 350 developers. It also smoothly accommodated Alfamart’s need for sudden and significant upscaling. “Fast processing times are critical to keep our customers happy,” said Setyawan Djojo. “It used to take us 10 seconds to scan members during peak hours, but with MongoDB, it is now below one second.” Setyawan Djojo added, “MongoDB helped us eliminate a lot of downtime compared to our previous SQL database.” MongoDB Atlas’s auto-scaling capabilities were a game changer for Alfamart. “MongoDB can automatically scale up and down depending on the usage of resources and performance. So during peak times, the database can scale up, and once the transaction peak is passed, it can scale back down,” said Setyawan Djojo. Looking ahead, Alfamart plans to continue exploring the potential of the MongoDB Atlas platform to further increase productivity, efficiency, and flexibility. Visit our solutions page to learn more about how MongoDB is helping retailers innovate worldwide. Check out our quick-start guide to get started with MongoDB Atlas Vector Search today. Visit our product page to learn more about MongoDB Atlas Search .

November 12, 2024

Health-Tech Startup Aktivo Labs Scales Up With MongoDB Atlas

Aktivo Labs , a pioneering health-tech startup based in Singapore, has made significant strides in the fight against chronic diseases. Aktivo Labs develops innovative preventative healthcare technology solutions that encourage healthier lifestyles. The Aktivo Score ® —the flagship product of Aktivo Labs built on MongoDB Atlas —is a simple yet powerful tool designed to guide users toward healthier living. “By collecting and analyzing data from smartphones and wearables—including physical activity, sleep patterns, and sedentary behavior—the Aktivo Score provides personalized recommendations to help users improve their health,” said Aktivo Labs CTO Jonnie Avinash at MongoDB.local Singapore in August 2024 . Aktivo Labs also works closely with insurance companies. Acting as a data processor, it helps insurers integrate some of the Aktivo Score features into their own apps to improve customer engagement. Empowering insurers with out-of-the-box apps and user journeys From the start, the Aktivo Labs engineering team chose to work on MongoDB Atlas because the platform’s document model and cloud nature provided the flexibility and scalability required to support the company’s business model. The first goal of the engineering team was to enable insurance providers to integrate Aktivo Score smoothly within their own infrastructures. The team built software development kits (SDKs) that insurers can embed in various iOS and Android apps. The SDKs enable progressive web app journeys for user experience, which insurers can then rebrand and customize as their own. Next, the Aktivo Labs team created a web portal to help companies manage their apps and monitor their performance. This required discreet direct integrations with a myriad of wearables. “When we started to deploy things with companies, we were able to replicate this architecture so we could support all kinds of configurations,” Avinash said. “We could give you dedicated clusters if the number of users that you’re expecting is big enough. If you’re not expecting too many customers, we could give you colocated or shared environments.” Finding more efficiencies, flexibility, and scalability with MongoDB Atlas “When we started off, one of our challenges was that we had a very small engineering team. A lot of the focus had to be on functionality, and the cost of tech had to be kept low,” said Avinash. Working on MongoDB Atlas allowed the Aktivo Labs team to focus on product development rather than on database management and overhead costs. As the company grew and expanded to markets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, another challenge arose: Aktivo Labs needed to ensure its platform could scale and handle large volumes of disparate data efficiently. MongoDB Atlas was the optimal solution because its fully managed multi-cloud platform could easily scale as the company grew. MongoDB Atlas also provided Aktivo Labs the flexibility it needed to handle the wide variety, volume, and complexity of data generated by users’ health metrics. Based on insights from the MongoDB Atlas oplog, the engineering team made proactive updates to the database in real-time in anticipation of dynamic changes to leaderboards and challenges in the app. This approach enables Aktivo Labs to manage complex data flows efficiently, ensuring that users always have access to the latest metrics about their health. MongoDB Atlas’s secondary nodes and analytics nodes provide isolated environments for intensive data processing tasks, such as calculating risk scores for diabetes and hypertension. This separation ensures that the primary user-facing applications remain responsive, even during periods of heavy data processing. These isolated environments have also been an important factor in achieving compliance with the data-anonymization requirements from health insurers. “The moment you start showing that it’s a managed service and you’re able to show a lot of these things, the amount of faith that both auditors and clients have in us is a lot more,” said Avinash. Powered by MongoDB Atlas, Aktivo Labs is now looking to expand into U.S. and European markets, pursuing its mission of preventing chronic diseases on a global scale. Visit our product page to learn more about MongoDB Atlas.

October 29, 2024

Gamuda Puts AI in Construction with MongoDB Atlas

Gamuda Berhad is a leading Malaysian engineering and construction company with operations across the world, including in Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, and more. The company is known for its innovative approach to construction through the use of cutting-edge technology. Speaking at MongoDB.local Kuala Lumpur in August 2024 , John Lim, Chief Digital Officer at Gamuda said: “In the construction industry, AI is increasingly being used to analyze vast amounts of data, from sensor readings on construction equipment to environmental data that impacts project timelines.” One of Gamuda’s priorities is determining how AI and other tools can impact the company’s methods for building large projects across the world. For that, the Gamuda team needed the right infrastructure, with a database equipped to handle the demands of modern AI-driven applications. MongoDB Atlas fulfilled all the requirements and enabled Gamuda to deliver on its AI-driven goals. Check out our AI Learning Hub to learn more about building AI-powered apps with MongoDB. Why Gamuda chose MongoDB Atlas “Before MongoDB, we were dealing with a lot of different databases and we were struggling to do even simple things such as full-text search,” said Lim. “How can we have a tool that's developer-friendly, helps us scale across the world, and at the same time helps us to build really cool AI use cases, where we're not thinking about the infrastructure or worrying too much about how things work but are able to just focus on the use case?” After some initial conversations with MongoDB, Lim’s team saw that MongoDB Atlas could help it streamline its technology stack, which was becoming very complex and time consuming to manage. MongoDB Atlas provided the optimal balance between ease of use and powerful functionality, enabling the company to focus on innovation rather than database administration. “I think the advantage that we see is really the speed to market. We are able to build something quickly. We are fast to meet the requirements to push something out,” said Lim. Chi Keen Tan, Senior Software Engineer at Gamuda, added, “The team was able to use a lot of developer tools like MongoDB Compass , and we were quite amazed by what we can do. This [ability to search the items within the database easily] is just something that’s missing from other technologies.” Being able to operate MongoDB on Google Cloud was also a key selling point for Gamuda: “We were able to start on MongoDB without any friction of having to deal with a lot of contractual problems and billing and setting all of that up,” said Lim. How MongoDB is powering more AI use cases Gamuda uses MongoDB Atlas and functionalities such as Atlas Search and Vector Search to bring a number of AI use cases to life. This includes work implemented on Gamuda’s Bot Unify platform, which Gamuda built in-house using MongoDB Atlas as the database. By using documents stored in SharePoint and other systems, this platform helps users write tenders quicker, find out about employee benefits more easily, or discover ways to improve design briefs. “It’s quite incredible. We have about 87 different bots now that people across the company have developed,” Lim said. Additionally, the team has developed Gamuda Digital Operating System (GDOS), which can optimize various aspects of construction, such as predictive maintenance, resource allocation, and quality control. MongoDB’s ability to handle large volumes of data in real-time is crucial for these applications, enabling Gamuda to make data-driven decisions that improve efficiency and reduce costs. Specifically, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search enables Gamuda’s AI models to quickly and accurately retrieve relevant data, improving the speed and accuracy of decision-making. It also helps the Gamuda team find patterns and correlations in the data that might otherwise go unnoticed. Gamuda’s journey with MongoDB Atlas is just beginning as the company continues to explore new ways to integrate technology into its operations and expand to other markets. To learn more and get started with MongoDB Vector Search, visit our Vector Search Quick Start page.

October 22, 2024

Grab Drives 50% Efficiencies with MongoDB Atlas

Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading ‘super application,’ offering a wide range of services, targeting both consumers and businesses, including deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise and more. Their range of applications, such as the popular Grab Taxi, Grab Pay, Grab Mart, Grab Ads, and more, count approximately 38 million active users monthly across 500 cities and eight countries. Managing a high volume of constantly growing users and handling regular spikes in demand and activity means that Grab needs to maintain a robust, scalable, and flexible digital infrastructure. Presenting at MongoDB.local Singapore in 2024, Grab shared their journey of migrating one of their key service apps— GrabKios —from the Community Edition of MongoDB to MongoDB Atlas . Grab also described how they are expanding their use of MongoDB to support semantic search. “Transitioning to MongoDB Atlas was not just a migration—it was a strategic move aimed at enhancing our database infrastructure,” said Jude Dulaj Lakshan De Croos, Database Engineering Manager at Grab. A smooth transition to MongoDB Atlas Grab’s journey with MongoDB Atlas began with the realization that their existing database infrastructure, while functional, was not equipped to handle the scale and complexity of their operations. Grab’s eventual migration to MongoDB Atlas was meticulously planned and executed, including extensive testing to ensure a smooth transition. During the critical testing phase, the creation of a replica “prod clone” environment, allowed Grab to test and refine their migration strategy. This minimized the possibility of unforeseen issues. The migration also involved the use of Mongomirror . This facilitated the seamless transfer of data from Grab’s self-hosted clusters to MongoDB Atlas. “We were able to ensure that migration was actually smooth and ran without any issues,” said Swarit Arora, Senior Database Engineer at Grab. MongoDB Atlas’s modern database offers Grab high levels of flexibility and scalability, accommodating Grab’s fast growth (the company recorded a 23% revenue growth YoY in 2024) in an ever-changing digital landscape. MongoDB Atlas also delivers unique automation and streamlining capabilities, as well as enterprise-grade support which led to improved process and database management efficiency. Efficiency gains with greater scalability, flexibility, performance MongoDB Atlas provided Grab with an automated, scalable, and secure platform, which empowered its engineering teams to focus on product development rather than database maintenance. “With MongoDB Atlas, we don’t have to worry about the scaling changes. And with hands-on security we can deliver secure and fast applications,” said Arora. “Being able to configure the exact resources required and then scale up and down based on our requirements is a plus. Considering we don't have to manage the scalability part, this is, I think, saving us around 50% of the time.” Furthermore, MongoDB Atlas delivers proactive recommendations to Grab’s team. For example, MongoDB Atlas’s Performance Advisor saves the team time by delivering real-time insights and recommendations to optimize query performance, ultimately reducing manual management tasks and increasing database efficiency. “It is now easy to set up our MongoDB clusters compared to what we were doing when we self-hosted, which was more time-consuming,” added Arora. “Secondly, if we are required to upgrade the cluster version, it is as easy as the click of a button.” Dedicated analytics nodes mean that Grab’s team is able to enhance the analytical capabilities of any application running on MongoDB. The successful migration to MongoDB Atlas has positioned Grab to explore new possibilities, including leveraging MongoDB’s advanced features for use cases such as semantic search and AI applications. Learn more about MongoDB Atlas .

October 14, 2024

magicpin Builds India's Largest Hyperlocal Retail Platform on MongoDB

Despite its trillion-dollar economy, 90% of retail consumption in India still takes place offline . While online retail in India has grown in recent years, much of it still consists of dark stores (a retail outlet or distribution center that exists exclusively for online shopping) and warehouses, the majority of retail establishments—fashion, food, dining, nightlife, and groceries—thrive as physical stores. What’s more, businesses looking to transition to online models are hindered by major platforms that focus primarily on clicks rather than encouraging transactions. This opportunity was the inspiration for the founders of magicpin , India’s largest hyperlocal retail platform. magicpin has revolutionized the conventional pay-per-click model, where businesses bid on keywords or phrases related to their products or services and then pay a fee each time someone clicks on an ad, with a new pay-per-conversion strategy. In a pay-per-conversion model, businesses only pay when they make an actual sale of a product or item. magicpin does not rely on dark stores, warehouses, or deep discounting; instead, it collaborates with local retailers, augmenting foot traffic and preserving the essence of local economies. This unique model ensures that consumers not only enjoy existing in-store benefits, but also receive additional perks when opting to transact through magicpin. “We enable the discovery of those merchants,” says Kunal Gupta, senior vice president at magicpin. “Which merchants in your local neighborhood are selling interesting stuff? What’s their inventory? What savings can we offer to buyers? We have data for everything.” Effectively three SaaS platforms in one, magicpin is a seller app, a buyer app, and a developing logistics app on the Open Network for Digital Commerce ( ONDC ), which is backed by the Indian government. With over 10 million users on its platform (covering the majority of Indian cities and over 100 localities), magicpin has established itself as a leading offline retail discovery and savings app. magicpin currently has 250,000 merchants in categories ranging from food to fashion to pharmacy. The power behind magicpin has always been MongoDB's flexibility and scalability. And from the company’s start in 2015, it became clear that magicpin was on to something special. “In the first week of March 2023 when we onboarded ONDC, we hit almost 10,000 transactions a day. In October last year, we peaked at 50,000 orders in a single day, which is a huge milestone,” says Kunal. “When an ONDC order is placed, it flows through us. We manage the entire process—from sending the order to the merchant, assigning logistics personnel for pickup and delivery, to handling any customer support tickets that may arise. It's the seamless integration of these elements that defines our contribution to the intricate framework of ONDC." Having launched using the community version of MongoDB , Kunal realized that magicpin needed to make better use of its relatively lean tech team and allow them to focus more on building the business. He also saw that a managed service would be a more effective way of handling maintenance and related tasks. “We realized there had to be a better solution. We can’t afford to have all the database expertise tied up with a team that’s focusing on creating businesses and building applications,” said Kunal. “That’s when we started to use MongoDB Atlas." magicpin uses a multitude of technologies, to store over 600 million SKUs, and handle its SaaS platform, session cache, card, and order management, and MongoDB Atlas sits at the heart of the business. “For our operational and scaling needs, it’s seamless,” Kunal concludes. “Availability is high, and monitoring and routing are super-good. Our lives have become much easier.” Watch the full presentation on YouTube to learn more.

July 23, 2024

Nokia Corteca Scales Wi-Fi Connectivity to Millions of Devices With MongoDB Atlas

Nokia’s home Wi-Fi connectivity cloud platform was launched in 2019 as the Nokia WiFi Cloud Controller (NWCC). In 2023, it was renamed and relaunched as the Corteca Home Controller, becoming part of the Corteca software suite that delivers smarter broadband for a better experience. The Corteca Home Controller can be hosted on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure, and is the industry’s first platform to support three management services—device management, Wi-Fi management, and application management. Supporting TR-369 (a standardized remote device management protocol) also allows the Home Controller to work in a multi-vendor environment, managing both Nokia broadband devices and third-party broadband devices. By solving connectivity issues before the end-user detects them, and by automatically optimizing Wi-Fi performance, the Home Controller helps deliver excellent customer experiences to millions of users, 24/7. During the five years that Nokia Corteca has been a MongoDB Atlas customer, the Home Controller has successfully scaled from 500,000 devices to over 4.5 million. There are now 75 telecommunications customers of Home Controller spread across all regions of the globe. Having the stability, efficiency, and performance to scale Nokia Corteca's solution is end-to-end, from applications embedded in the device, through the home, and into the cloud. Algorithms assess data extracted from home networks, based on which performance parameters automatically adjust as needed—changing Wi-Fi channels to avoid network interference, for example—thereby ensuring zero downtime. The Home Controller processes real-time data sent from millions of devices, generating massive volumes of data. With a cloud optimization team tasked with deploying the solution across the globe to ever more customers, the Home Controller needed to store and manage its vast dataset and to onboard new telecommunication organizations more easily without incurring any downtime. Prior to Nokia Corteca moving to MongoDB Atlas, its legacy relational database lacked stability and required both admin and application teams to manage operations. A flexible model with time series capabilities That's where MongoDB Atlas came in. Nokia was familiar with the MongoDB Atlas database platform, having already worked with it as part of a previous company acquisition and solution integration. As Nokia's development team had direct experience with the scalability, manageability, and ease of use offered by MongoDB Atlas, they knew it had the potential to address the Home Controller’s technical and business requirements. There was another key element: Nokia wanted to store time-series data—a sequence of data points in which insights are gained by analyzing changes over time. MongoDB Atlas has the unique ability to store operational and time series data in parallel and provides robust querying capabilities on that data. Other advantages include MongoDB's flexible schema, which helps developers store data to match the application's needs and adapt as data changes over time. MongoDB Atlas also provides features such as Performance Advisor that monitors the performance of the database and makes intelligent recommendations to optimize and improve the performance and resource consumption Fast real time data browsing and scalability made easy Previously, scaling the database had been time-consuming and manual. With MongoDB Atlas, the team can easily scale up as demand increases with very little effort and no downtime. This also means it is much more straightforward to add new clients, such as large telecommunications companies. Having started with 100GB of data, the team now has more than 1.3 terabytes, and can increase the disc space in a fraction of a second, positioning the team to be able to scale with the business. As the Home Controller grows and onboards more telcos, the team anticipates a strengthening relationship with MongoDB. “We have a very good relationship with the MongoDB team,” said Jaisankar Gunasekaran, Head of Cloud Hosting and Operations at Nokia. “One of the main advantages is their local presence—they’re accessible, they’re friendly, and they’re experts. It makes our lives easier and lets us concentrate on our products and solutions.” To learn more about how MongoDB can help drive innovation and capture customer imaginations, check out our MongoDB for Telecommunications page.

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illimity & MongoDB: Revolutionary yet Reliable

Revolutionary yet Reliable! Learn how illimity choose MongoDB Atlas on Microsoft Azure to build Italy's first cloud-native, digital bank.

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HalaPlay proves 1,500 percent growth is no fantasy, thanks to MongoDB Atlas and MongoDB Realm

Learn how MongoDB Realm's application development services helped Halaplay — a fantasy sports league — rapidly build new features and scale to 9 million users.

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Schools in shutdown: How Sanoma Learning and MongoDB Atlas kept teaching as classes went virtual, supporting growth to 12 Million exercises daily

Sanoma Learning's migration to MongoDB Atlas

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