MongoDB in the Oracle Cloud? New Silo-Busting API Makes It Possible

Oracle introduces a new way to integrate two of the industry's leading database platforms

Data management sometimes feels like an almost religious decision: Do you believe in relational databases and SQL development? Or a document database and JSON?

Oracle is making that choice easier with its new API for MongoDB. The Oracle Database API for MongoDB makes is possible to develop and run MongoDB apps, using MongoDB tools and drivers, on Oracle’s Autonomous Database cloud service.

In other words, Oracle is bridging its own relational model and MongoDB’s document model so customers can have one foot in both camps. “The API allows us to give MongoDB applications compatibility to Oracle databases—and it can expose relational data as MongoDB collections,” says Gerald Venzl, distinguished product manager for Oracle Cloud. Collections are how documents are organized and stored in MongoDB.

The API provides connective tissue between two of the database industry’s leading platforms. Oracle and MongoDB are both in the Cloud Database Report’s Top 20. And both databases score high in DB-Eng…