MongoDB used today’s keynotes to announce an update to its Atlas managed database-as-a-service offering, which also now runs on Microsoft Azure and Google’s Cloud Platform, as well as two completely new products: Stitch, a new backend as a service (BaaS) tool that sits on top of the MongoDB database and helps developers stitch together different third-party services, and Mongo Charts, a new Tableau-like business intelligence service for charting information in MongoDB databases.
In many ways, Stitch marks MongoDB’s first foray outside its core database services. As MongoDB CTO and co-founder Eliot Horowitz told me, the team realized that most of MongoDB’s users now write applications that use a combination of third-party services.
Stitch allows developers to connect to these external services and easily pull the data from their APIs into its eponymous database. Ideally, this means that developers don’t have to build their own security and privacy controls, for example, and that they can focus on building their applications instead of integrating their applications with these services.
