This publish was co-authored by Patrick McCluskey, Vice President at MongoDB.

As we welcome the period of AI, it’s vital to do not forget that information is the gas that powers AI. With this understanding, it’s clear why our objective is to make Azure the perfect vacation spot for information. In Azure, clients profit from a complete portfolio of database merchandise together with relational, non-relational, open supply, and caching options. We’ve got additionally established deep partnerships, just like the one now we have with MongoDB Inc., to allow digital transformation utilizing their databases as managed choices in Azure.

MongoDB is a number one information platform firm that offers builders an intuitive method to mannequin their information. We’ve partnered with MongoDB for years however this yr we deepened our partnership considerably, culminating in a multiyear strategic partnership settlement. We’re extremely happy with the work we’ve finished collectively to make Azure an ideal place to run MongoDB Atlas. Prior to now six months alone, MongoDB has turn out to be certainly one of our prime performing Azure Market companions pushed by the adoption of the MongoDB Atlas on Azure pay-as-you-go self-service providing.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower everybody to realize extra, and we all know that our clients like utilizing MongoDB to construct functions. In yr certainly one of our strategic partnership, we collaborated with MongoDB to make it even simpler for our joint clients to do extra with Microsoft providers and MongoDB Atlas on Azure. We’ve enabled builders to make use of MongoDB Atlas in 40+ Azure areas globally—with our most up-to-date new location being in Doha, Qatar, which we introduced final month at our Ignite convention. And we all know it’s not simply in regards to the information middle, it’s additionally critically vital to make it straightforward for builders to get began with MongoDB Atlas on Azure. GitHub Copilot makes it straightforward to construct MongoDB functions on Azure resulting from its proficiency in making code recommendations and we’re working collectively to additional enhance GitHub Copilot’s efficiency utilizing MongoDB schema, amongst different issues.

See how MongoDB and GitHub Copilot come collectively on this video.

We’ve already seen clients reaping the advantages of our strategic partnership. For instance, our joint work with Temenos helped to allow their banking clients to achieve record-high scale. And in one other case, Mural, a collaborative intelligence firm, shared their expertise of constructing with MongoDB Atlas and Microsoft Azure to assist their clients collaborate higher and smarter.

MongoDB at Microsoft Ignite 2023

We proceed to make investments to enhance the client expertise of working MongoDB Atlas on Azure. In November, at Microsoft Ignite 2023, Microsoft and MongoDB introduced three vital integrations: Microsoft Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Material, and Entity Framework (EF) Core. Let’s take a look at how clients can profit from every one.

1. Semantic Kernel is an open supply SDK that allows combining AI providers like OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Hugging Face with programming languages like C# and Python. At Ignite, MongoDB introduced native help for MongoDB Atlas Vector Search in Semantic Kernel. MongoDB Atlas Vector Search permits clients to combine operational information and vectors in a unified and absolutely managed platform. Now, clients can use Semantic Kernel to include Atlas Vector Search in functions. This permits, for instance, utilizing Atlas Vector Search to work together with retrieval-augmented era (RAG) of their work with giant language fashions (LLMs), thereby decreasing the chance of AI hallucinations, amongst different advantages.
2. Microsoft Material can reshape how your groups work with information by bringing everybody collectively on a single, AI-powered platform constructed for the period of AI. MongoDB Atlas is the operational information layer for a lot of functions, these clients use MongoDB Atlas to retailer information from inside enterprise functions, customer-facing providers, and third-party APIs throughout a number of channels. With connectors for Microsoft Material pipelines and Dataflow Gen2, our clients can now mix MongoDB Atlas information with relational information from conventional functions and unstructured information from sources like logs, clickstreams, and extra. At Microsoft Ignite, we noticed thrilling bulletins making this integration seamless and simple to make use of for MongoDB clients. In the course of the first keynote, Microsoft introduced that Microsoft Material is now usually out there, and shared a brand new frictionless method so as to add and handle present cloud information warehouses and databases, like MongoDB, in Material known as Mirroring. Now, MongoDB clients can replicate a snapshot of their database to OneLake and OneLake will robotically hold this reproduction in sync in close to real-time. You may learn extra on methods to unlock the worth of information in MongoDB Atlas with the clever analytics of Microsoft Material right here.
3. Hundreds of thousands of builders rely upon C# to jot down their functions, and a big share of those use Entity Framework (EF) Core, a light-weight, extensible, open supply and cross-platform model of the favored Entity Framework information entry expertise. MongoDB introduced that MongoDB Supplier for EF Core is now out there in Public Preview. This makes it attainable for builders utilizing EF Core to construct C#/.NET functions with MongoDB whereas persevering with to make use of their most popular APIs and design patterns.

In every case, we’ve labored carefully with MongoDB to make sure builders, information engineers, and information scientists can simply join their MongoDB information to Microsoft providers.

A yr of strengthened collaboration

These new integrations observe a banner yr of collaboration between Microsoft and MongoDB. Past Microsoft Ignite, we’ve shared plenty of wonderful developer information:

• The MongoDB for VS Code Extension was made usually out there in August 2023. VS Code is the world’s hottest built-in growth atmosphere (IDE), and builders downloaded the MongoDB extension over 1 million occasions throughout its public preview. This free, downloadable extension makes it straightforward for builders to construct functions and handle information in MongoDB straight from VS Code.
• MongoDB built-in with a spread of providers throughout the Microsoft Clever Knowledge Platform (MIDP), together with:
  • Azure Synapse Analytics, to make it simpler to investigate operational information
  • Microsoft Purview, so customers can hook up with and safeguard MongoDB information
  • Energy BI, making it attainable for information analysts to natively remodel, analyze, and share dashboards that incorporate dwell MongoDB Atlas information
  • Knowledge Federation: Atlas Knowledge Federation can now be deployed in Microsoft Azure and helps Microsoft Azure Blob Storage in personal preview.

• Collectively printed tutorials and extra overlaying:

It has been an ideal yr for Microsoft and MongoDB, collectively making it simpler for organizations of all sizes to do extra with their information.

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