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Shutterfly is an Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service. MongoDB is used for various persistent data storage requirements within Shutterfly. MongoDB helps Shutterfly build an unrivaled service that enables deeper, more personal relationships between customers and those who matter most in their lives. For more information, view Kenny Gorman's presentation Implementing MongoDB at Shutterfly from MongoSF (April 2010): Slides and Video. |
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Foursquare is a location based social network that incorporates gaming elements.
- MongoDB at foursquare presentation: Slides and Video (May 2010)
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bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links. bit.ly uses MongoDB to store user history. For more information:
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MongoDB is used for back-end storage on the SourceForge front pages, project pages, and download pages for all projects.
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Etsy is a website that allows users to buy and sell handmade items. Read the MongoDB at Etsy blog series:
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The New York Times is using MongoDB in a form-building application for photo submissions. Mongo's lack of schema gives producers the ability to define any combination of custom form fields. For more information:
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BoxedIce's server monitoring solution - Server Density - stores 600 million+ documents in MongoDB.
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Wordnik stores its entire text corpus in MongoDB - 1.2TB of data in over 5 billion records. The speed to query the corpus was cut to 1/4 the time it took prior to migrating to MongoDB. More about MongoDB at Wordnik:
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ShareThis makes it easy to share ideas and get to the good stuff online. ShareThis is the world’s largest sharing network reaching over 400 million users across 150,000 sites and 785,000 domains across the web |
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Business Insider has been using MongoDB since the beginning of 2008. All of the site's data, including posts, comments, and even the images, are stored on MongoDB. For more information:
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GitHub, the social coding site, is using MongoDB for an internal reporting application. |
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Gilt Groupe is an invitation only luxury shopping site. Gilt uses MongoDB for real time ecommerce analytics.
- Gilt CTO Mike Bryzek's presentation at MongoSF in April 2010.
- Hummingbird - a real-time web traffic visualization tool developed by Gilt and powered by MongoDB
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IGN Entertainment, a unit of News Corporation, is a leading Internet media and services provider focused on the videogame and entertainment enthusiast markets. IGN’s properties reached more than 37.3 million unique users worldwide February 2010, according to Internet audience measurement firm comScore Media Metrix. MongoDB powers IGN’s real-time traffic analytics and RESTful Content APIs. |
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CollegeHumor is a comedy website. MongoDB is used in CollegeHumor for internal analytics and link exchange application. |
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Evite uses MongoDB for analytics and quick reporting.
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Disqus is an innovative blog-commenting system. |
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MongoHQ provides a hosting platform for MongoDB and also uses MongoDB as the back-end for its service. Our hosting centers page provides more information about MongoHQ and other MongoDB hosting options. |
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Justin.tv is the easy, fun, and fast way to share live video online. MongoDB powers Justin.tv's internal analytics tools for virality, user retention, and general usage stats that out-of-the-box solutions can't provide. Read more about Justin.tv's broadcasting architecture. |
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Chartbeat is a revolutionary real-time analytics service that enables people to understand emergent behaviour in real-time and exploit or mitigate it. Chartbeat stores all historical analytics data in MongoDB.
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Hot Potato is a social tool that organizes conversations around events. For more information:
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Eventbrite gives you all the online tools you need to bring people together for an event and sell tickets. EventBrite uses MongoDB to track page views.
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Flowdock is a modern web-based team messenger, that helps your team to become more organized simply by chatting. Flowdock backend uses MongoDB to store all messages.
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The Chicago Tribune uses MongoDB in its Illinois School Report Cards application, which is generated from a nearly 9,000 column denormalized database dump produced annually by the State Board of Education. The application allows readers to search by school name, city, county, or district and to view demographic, economic, and performance data for both schools and districts. |
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Sugar CRM uses MongoDB to power the backend of its preview feedback mechanism. It captures users' comments and whether they like or dislike portions of the application all from within beta versions of Sugar. |
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WHERE® is a local search and recommendation service that helps people discover places, events and mobile coupons in their area. Using WHERE, people can find everything from the weather, news, and restaurant reviews, to the closest coffee shop, cheapest gas, traffic updates, movie showtimes and offers from local merchants. WHERE is available as a mobile application and as a web service at Where.com. here, Inc. uses MongoDB to store geographic content for the WHERE application and for WHERE Ads™ - a hyper-local ad network. |
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PhoneTag is a service that automatically transcribes voicemail to text and delivers it in real-time via e-mail and SMS. PhoneTag stores the metadata and transcriptions for every voicemail it process in MongoDB. |
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Harmony is a powerful web-based platform for creating and managing websites. It helps developers with content editors work together with unprecedented flexibility and simplicity. From stylesheets, images and templates, to pages, blogs, and comments, every piece of Harmony data is stored in MongoDB. Switching to MongoDB from MySQL drastically simplified Harmony's data model and increased the speed at which we can deliver features.
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Hashrocket is an expert web design and development group. Hashrocket built PharmMD, a fully-featured Medication Management application in Ruby on Rails. The system contains functionality for identifying and resolving drug-related problems for millions of patients. |
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Yottaa offers Performance Analytics, a cloud service that monitors, ranks and analyzes the performance of millions of web sites, providing an open database to answer questions such as “why performance matters” and “how fast is my site”. Yottaa is using Ruby on Rails and MongoDB to build their scalable analytics engine.
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BuzzFeed is a trends aggregator that uses a web crawler and human editors to find and link to popular stories around the web. BuzzFeed moved an analytics system tracking over 400 million monthly events from MySQL to MongoDB. |
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The Mozilla open-source Ubiquity Herd project uses MongoDB for back-end storage. Source code is available on bitbucket. |
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Codaset is an open system where you can browse and search through open source projects, and check out what your friends are coding.
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Shopwiki uses Mongo as a data store for its shopping search engine, where they commit all the data generated, such as custom analytics. Mongo's performance is such that ShopWiki uses it in cases where MySQL would just not be practical. ShopWiki is also using it as a storage engine for all R&D and data-mining efforts where MongoDB's document oriented architecture offers maximum flexibility.
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MyPunchbowl.com is a start to finish party planning site that uses MongoDB for tracking user behavior and datamining.
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Sunlight Labs is a community of open source developers and designers dedicated to opening up our government to make it more transparent, accountable and responsible. MongoDB powers the National Data Catalog, and the Drumbone API, which is an aggregator of data about members of Congress.
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photostre.am streams image data from flickr and uses MongoDB as it's only database.
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Fotopedia uses MongoDB as storage backend for its copy of wikipedia data, storage for users and albums timelines, a feature that is currently under heavy refactoring, and as the "metacache", an index of every tiny html fragment in its varnish cache for proactive invalidation of stale content.
- MongoDB: Our Swiss Army Datastore - Presentation at MongoFR in June 2010: Slides and Video
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Grooveshark currently uses Mongo to manage over one million unique user sessions per day. |
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Stickybits is a fun and social way to attach digital content to real world objects. |
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MongoDB is being used for the game feeds component. It caches game data from different sources which gets served to ea.com, rupture.com and the EA download manager. |
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Struq develops technology that personalises the contents and design of online display advertising in real time. |
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Pitchfork is using MongoDB for their year-end readers survey and internal analytics. |
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Floxee, a web toolkit for creating Twitter directories, leverages MongoDB for back-end storage. The award-winning TweetCongress is powered by Floxee. |
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Sailthru is an email service provider that uses MongoDB for click-stream analysis and reporting. |
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Silentale keeps track of your contacts and conversations from multiple platforms and allows you to search and access them from anywhere. Silentale is using MongoDB as the back-end for indexing and searching on millions of stored messages of different types. More details on Silentale can be found in this TechCrunch article.
- One Year with MongoDB presentation from MongoUK (June 2010): Slides and Video
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TeachStreet helps people find local and online classes by empowering teachers with robust tools to manage their teaching businesses. MongoDB powers our real-time analytics system which provide teachers with insight into the performance and effectiveness of their listings on TeachStreet.
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Defensio is a comment-spam blocker that uses MongoDB for back-end storage. |
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TweetSaver is a web service for backing up, searching, and tagging your tweets. TweetSaver uses MongoDB for back-end storage. |
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Bloom Digital's AdGear platform is a next-generation ad platform. MongoDB is used for back-end reporting storage for AdGear. |
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KLATU Networks designs, develops and markets asset monitoring solutions which helps companies manage risk, reduce operating costs and streamline operations through proactive management of the status, condition, and location of cold storage assets and other mission critical equipment. KLATU uses MongoDB to store temperature, location, and other measurement data for large wireless sensor networks. KLATU chose MongoDB over competitors for scalability and query capabilities. |
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songkick lets you track your favorite artists so you never miss a gig again.
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Detexify is a cool application to find LaTeX symbols easily. It uses MongoDB for back-end storage. Check out the blog post for more on why Detexfy is using MongoDB. |
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http://sluggy.com/ is built on MongoDB, mongodb_beaker, and MongoKit.
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Stylesignal is using MongoDB to store opinions from social media, blogs, forums and other sources to use in their sentiment analysis system, Zeitgeist. |
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@trackmeet helps you take notes with twitter, and is built on MongoDB |
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eFlyoverleverages the Google Earth Browser Plugin and MongoDB to provide interactive flyover tours of over two thousand golf courses worldwide. |
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Shapado is a multi-topic question and answer site in the style of Stack Overflow. Shapado is written in Rails and uses MongoDB for back-end storage. |
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Sifino enables students to help each other with their studies. Students can share notes, course summaries, and old exams, and can also ask and respond to questions about particular courses. |
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GameChanger provides mobile apps that replace pencil-and-paper scorekeeping and online tools that distribute real-time game updates for amateur sports.
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soliMAP is a map-based ad listings site that uses MongoDB for storage. |
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MyBankTracker iPhone App uses MongoDB for the iPhone app's back-end server. |
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BillMonitor uses MongoDB to store all user data, including large amounts of billing information. This is used by the live site and also by BillMonitor's internal data analysis tools. |
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Tubricator allows you to create easy to remember links to YouTube videos. It's built on MongoDB and Django. |
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Mu.ly uses MongoDB for user registration and as a backend server for its iPhone Push notification service. MongoDB is mu.ly's Main backend database and absolute mission critical for mu.ly. |
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Avinu is a Content Management System (CMS) built on the Vork enterprise framework and powered by MongoDB. |
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edelight is a social shopping portal for product recommendations. |
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Topsy is a search engine powered by Tweets that uses Mongo for realtime log processing and analysis. |
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Codepeek is using MongoDB and GridFS for storing pastes. |
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Similaria.pl is an online platform, created to connect users with people and products that match them. |
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ToTuTam uses Mongo to store information about events in its portal and also to store and organise information about users preferences. |
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themoviedb.org is a free, user driven movie database that uses MongoDB as its primary database. |
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OCW Search is a search engine for OpenCourseWare. It stores all the course materials in MongoDB and uses Sphinx to index these courses.
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Mixero is the new generation Twitter client for people who value their time and are tired of information noise. Mixero uses Mongo to store users' preferences and data. |
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Biggo is an advanced site constructor with e-commerce modules. Biggo uses MongoDB for stats collection. |
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Kabisa is a web development firm specializing in Ruby on Rails and Java / J2EE. Kabisa uses MongoDB for many of its client projects, including a mobile news application for iPhone and Android. |
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DokDok makes it easy and automatic for users to find, work on and share the latest version of any document - right from their inbox. DokDok migrated to a Mongo backend in August 2009. See Bruno Morency's presentation Migrating to MongoDB for more information. |
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Enbil is a swedish website for finding, and comparing, rental cars. MongoDB is used for storing and querying data about geographical locations and car rental stations. |
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Websko is a content management system designed for individual Web developers and cooperative teams. MongoDB's lack of schema gives unlimited possibilities for defining manageable document oriented architecture and is used for back-end storage for all manageable structure and data content. Websko is written in Rails, uses MongoMapper gem and in-house crafted libraries for dealing with Mongo internals. |
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markitfor.me is a bookmarking service that makes your bookmarks available via full-text search so you don't have to remember tags or folders. You can just search for what you're looking for and the complete text of all of your bookmarked pages will be searched. MongoDB is used as the datastore for the marked pages. |
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Backpage Pics is a website that displays backpage.com adult classified listings as an image gallery. MongoDB is used to store listing data. Please note that this website is NSFW. |
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Joomla Ads uses MongoDB for its back-end reporting services. |
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musweet keeps track of what artists and bands publish on the social web. |
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Eiwa System Management, Inc. is a software development firm that has been using MongoDB for various projects since January 2010. |
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Morango is an internet strategy consultancy based in London, which uses MongoDB in production on several client projects.
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PeerPong discovers everyone's expertise and connects you to the best person to answer any question. We index users across the entire web, looking at public profiles, real-time streams, and other publicly available information to discover expertise and to find the best person to answer any question. |
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ibibo ("I build, I bond") is a social network using MongoDB for its dashboard feeds. Each feed is represented as a single document containing an average of 1000 entries; the site currently stores over two million of these documents in MongoDB. |
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MediaMath is the leader in the new and rapidly growing world of digital media trading. |
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Zoofs is a new way to discover YouTube videos that people are talking about on Twitter. Zoofs camps in Twitter searching for tweets with YouTube video links, and then ranks them based on popularity. |
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Oodle is an online classifieds marketplace that serves up more than 15 million visits a month and is the company behind the popular Facebook Marketplace. Oodle is using Mongo for storing user profile data for our millions of users and has also open sourced its Mongo ORM layer. |
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Funadvice relaunched using the MongoDB and MongoMapper. Read the Funadvice CTO's post to MongoDB User Forum from May 2010 for more details. |
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Ya Sabe is using MongoDB for the backend storage of business listings. Yasabe.com is the first local search engine built for Hispanics in the US with advanced search functionality. You can find and discover more than 14 million businesses via the web or your mobile phone. All the information is in both Spanish and in English. |
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LoteriaFutbol.com is a Fantasy Soccer Portal recently launched for the World Soccer Cup: South Africa 2010. Mongo has been used entirely to store data about users, groups, news, tournaments and picks. It uses the PHP driver with a Mongo module for Kohana v3 (Mango). |
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Kehalim switched over to MongoDB 1 year ago after exhausting other cloud and relational options. As a contextual affiliate network, Kehalim stores all of its advertisers, ads and even impressions on top of MongoDB. MongoDB has outed both MySQL and memcached completely and also provides great hadoop-like alternative with its own map-reduce. |
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Squarespace is an innovative web publishing platform that consists of a fully hosted and managed GUI environment for creating and maintaining websites. Squarespace's new social modules utilize Mongo to store large amounts of social data that is pulled in from around the Internet and displayed in native widgets that are fully integrated with the platform. |
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Givemebeats.net is an e-commerce music site that allows people to buy beats (music instrumentals) produced by some of the best producers in the world. Now we entirely use MongoDB to store users profile, beats information, and transaction statistics. |
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Cheméo, a search engine for chemical properties, is built on top of MongoDB. For a fairly extensive explanation of the tools and software used and some MongoDB tips, please go to chemeo.com/doc/technology. |
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Planetaki is place were you can read all your favourite websites in one place. MongoDB has replaced MySQL for the storage backend that does all the heavy lifting and caching of each website's news feed.
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[ChinaVisual.com] is the leading and largest vertical portal and community for creative people in China. ChinaVisual.com moved from mysql to mongoDB in early 2009. Currently MongoDB powers its most major production and service, like file storage, session server, and user tracking. |
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RowFeeder is an easy social media monitoring solution that allows people to track tweets and Facebook posts in a spreadsheet. RowFeeder uses MongoDB to keep up with the high volume of status updates across multiple social networks as well as generate basic stats.
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Mini Medical Record is designed to facilitate medical care for all members of the public. While useful for everyone, it is especially useful for travelers, professional road warriors, homeless, substance dependent, and other members of the public who receive care through multiple medical systems. |
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Open Dining Network is a restaurant data and food ordering platform that provides a RESTful API to take web and mobile orders. MongoDB is used to manage all restaurant, customer, and order information. |
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URLi.st is a small web application to create and share list of links. The web application is coded in Python (using the pylons framework) and uses MongoDB (with pymongo 1.6) in production to power its data layer. |
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Pinterest is a community to share collections of things you love. Pinterest is built in Python and uses MongoDB for its internal analytics tools and huge data sets like contacts imported from gmail and yahoo. |
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LearnBoost is a free and amazing gradebook web app that leverages MongoDB for its data storage needs. LearnBoost is the creator of Mongoose, a JavaScript async ORM for MongoDB that is flexible, extensible and simple to use.
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Kidiso is a safe online playground for children up to 13, with advanced parental controls. In the current setup, we are using MongoDB for logging, analysis tasks, and background jobs that aggregate data for performance (ie search results and allowed content). |
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Carbon Calculated provides an open platform that aggregates carbon and green house gas emissions for everything in the world, from passenger transport, raw materials, through to consumer goods. Built on top of this platform, Carbon Calculated offers a suite of products that make carbon calculation accessible and intuitive. |
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Vowch is a simple platform for telling the world about all the people, places and things that matter most to you. It is a platform for making positive, public endorsements for anyone or anything from a Twitter account.
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HolaDoctor.com is the most comprehensive health and wellness portal available in Spanish for the global online Hispanic community. MongoDB is being used to store all the content for the site, including GridFS to store article images. Session data is also being persisted on our MongoDB cluster using a custom PHP save handler. |
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Ros Spending is the first Russian public spending monitoring project. It includes information about 1,400,000 federal government and 210,000 regional government contracts, as well as information about more than 260,000 suppliers and 26,000 customers. MongoDB stores all reports, customer and supplier information, stats and pre-cached queries. The project was initiated by the Institute of Contemporary Development and launched publicly in July 2010 during the Tver economic forum. |
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BlueSpark designs and develops iPhone and iPad applications and specializes in Adobe Flash development, we have a passion for creating great user experiences and products that feel simple to use. |
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[Aghora] is a time attendance application specially designed for the requirements of the Brasilian governmental requirements. Our whole application is based on PHP and MongoDB. Click here for more information. |
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Man of the House is the real man's magazine, a guide for the jack of all trades trying to be better – at work and at home, as a father and as a husband. The entire backend of the site depends on MongoDB. |
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PeerIndex is an algorithmic authority ranking web service that uses MongoDB to scale processing of the firehose of social media, as a distributed data store and middle cache for fast site performance. |
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sahibinden.com is an online classifieds marketplace that serves more than 14.5 million unique visitors and over 1.5 billion pageviews a month. sahibinden.com is using MongoDB for storing classifieds data and caching. |
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Remembersaurus is a flashcard website targeted at language learners which helps the learners focus on the cards that they are having the hardest time remembering.We're using MongoDB for all of our backend storage, but it's been particularly useful for helping log how well each user knows each of the cards they are studying. |
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Shadelight is a unique fantasy roleplaying game where you play one of the legendary Guardians of Elumir. Set out on magical quests, battle mysterious creatures and explore a truly unique fantasy world. |
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Ylastic is using MongoDB extensively in production. For example, MongoDB powers Ylastic's monitors capability. |
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BRAINREPUBLIC is a social network for anyone to wants to talk face-to-face - or just audio or chat - with like-minded people from anywhere at anytime. |
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Friendmaps is a tool that allows users to view all of their social networks on a single map. |
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The affiliate marketing platform Jounce has gone live using MongoDB as the main storage solution for its search data. As of August 2010, ~10 million offers are stored in the database. |
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Virb Looking for a place to park your portfolio, your band, your website? Build an elegantly simple website with Virb. You provide the content, we’ll help with the rest — for only $10/month. |
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Deal Machine is a streamlined CRM that makes sales fun and effective. We use MongoDB as our main storage. It has helped us a lot to make the web app better and more scalable. |
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arrivalguides.com is the largest network of free online (and pdf) travel guides. arrivalguides.com recently launched a new site where they rewrote the whole application switching from SQL server to MongoDB using the NoRM Driver for C#. The website is purely driven by MongoDB as the database backend. |
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The Hype Machine keeps track of emerging music on the web. We use MongoDB to accelerate storage and retrieval of user preferences, and other core site data. MongoDB's web-native design and high performance in our workloads was what got our attention. It's from the future! |
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Scrabbly is a massively multiplayer online scrabble crossword. Uses MongoDB geospatial indexing.
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