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…I'm not sure how Mongo's review process works, but it seems like this one had zero review. [1] - https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/pull/1152

comment by enether · 2025-12-28 · in MongoBleed

https://github.com/mongodb/mongodb-kubernetes/blob/1.2.0/LIC... is crazypants, since it waffles back and forth between "Apache 2" and "commercial license terms." To say nothing of the fact that one is still responsible for the licensing of…

comment by mdaniel · 2025-07-22 · in MCK: Open-Source MongoDB Operator

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Ask HN: Where is MongoDB source code?

story by aleksi · 2025-04-04 · 3 comments

…The layers are deep, but this is the function that handles waiting before acknowledgement: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/20f42d9dc89999d119f35a...

comment by dgottlieb · 2023-12-16 · in Database Fundamentals

Isn't mongodb open source? https://github.com/mongodb/mongo Edit: ah it's source-available, not open source.

comment by malermeister · 2023-09-21 · in MongoDB’s new query engine

What are you on about ? https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch https://github.com/mongodb/mongo How are ES and mongoDB not open source ? Mongo switched from GPL v3 to SSPL in 2018 the only difference is whether you can offer mongoDB as a…

comment by manquer · 2023-09-17 · in Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source

…at no charge, under the terms of this License. ... Seems like that applies to even patches: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo MongoDB is free and the source is available. Versions released prior to October 16, 2018 are published under the…

comment by KronisLV · 2022-07-19 · in Nutanix Objects violates MinIO’s open source license

…DB license - https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/2c4e2c6/LICENS... Mongo license - https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/39e4b70/LICENSE-Commun...

comment by avinassh · 2022-05-28 · in Neon – Serverless Postgres

Also for those curious here's the C++ query planner for Mongo: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/src/mongo/db/qu... Checking whether the key pattern matches an index: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/src/mongo/db/qu..…

comment by winrid · 2022-04-22 · in How Postgres chooses which index to use for a query

…Optimization team, where you'll make core contributions to our flagship open source codebase ( https://github.com/mongodb/mongo ). If you have relational or NoSQL Database expertise, that's great, but what's most important is that you have…

comment by stevetarzia · 2022-04-06 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)

…with Antithesis [1] and getting lots of assurance from that, right? That gives me confidence. [1] https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/wiki/Testing-MongoDB-with-A...

comment by jorangreef · 2022-03-31 · in Cryptocurrency doesn’t address the hard parts of financial inclusion

…Optimization team, where you'll make core contributions to our flagship open source codebase ( https://github.com/mongodb/mongo ). If you have relational or NoSQL Database expertise, that's great, but what's most important is that you have…

comment by stevetarzia · 2022-03-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)

…Source contributions. Even when they demand copyright assignment to accept any contribution. 1: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/wiki ---- >> if I could modify the source code … But I can’t … legal. > You absolutely can. Where did you get…

comment by pritambaral · 2021-07-25 · in What license to use to prevent AWS et al. from selling my project as a service?

It's already implemented actually :') ! Trust me. I'm an engineer :D. https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/72ed8227aa029afd554aa5...

comment by MaBeuLux88 · 2021-06-09 · in Show HN: Monty, Mongo tinified. MongoDB implemented in Python

> MongoDB switched to an open source model a decade ago ...and then moved back 2 years ago. From the https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/README : > MongoDB is free and the source is available. Versions released prior to October…

comment by Pet_Ant · 2021-01-12 · in Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History

…they exist is because of the exact same licenses and policies which enabled Amazon to do this. [1] https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/tree/master/src/third_party...

comment by 013a · 2019-04-25 · in Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs

…AGPL and is now licensed under SSPL. The source code is open to all, as it has always been, at https://github.com/mongodb/mongo DocumentDB is not cheaper than MongoDB Atlas. Preliminary estimates show this to only be the case with very…

comment by codepopacy · 2019-01-11 · in Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility

…their AGPL license (which is very difficult). https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/ https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/GNU-AGPL-3.0.tx...

comment by KB · 2017-10-20 · in MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO

…what about that page are you claiming to be right or wrong? The code is here for all to see: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/tree/master/src/mongo

comment by aioprisan · 2017-01-11 · in The MongoDB hack and the importance of secure defaults

In part. According to the Github repo, it's 75% C++, 18% JS. https://github.com/mongodb/mongo

comment by grzm · 2017-01-11 · in The MongoDB hack and the importance of secure defaults

MongoDB Server come to my mind [1]. Not fan of MongoDB. [1]: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo

comment by paukiatwee · 2016-10-07 · in RethinkDB needs a new home

…32bit startup warning has been in place since 2009. It was in the README in 2008 (IIRC, pre-1.0). https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/b3322b86a014683018ac... There's plenty in Mongo to complain about, but grousing about the 32-bit…

comment by cheald · 2015-07-19 · in Never, ever, ever use MongoDB

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MongoDB hits 30,000 commits

story by jasondc · 2015-06-15 · 1 comment

I'm not sure if you would consider it a startup anymore, but: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo

comment by wyc · 2014-09-19 · in Ask HN: Are there startups that went open-source and succeed?

Here's the main commit. https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/87739d45b9c974da88ca...

comment by hendzen · 2014-06-26 · in MongoDB World Keynote from Eliot Horowitz [video]

Experimental MongoDB integration with (Facebook's) RocksDB storage engine: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/1c9a75094b829795c2b9...

comment by jasondc · 2014-06-25 · in MongoDB World Keynote from Eliot Horowitz [video]

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/SConstruct#L231 has the rocksdb changes, but either the other stuff isn't up or I've missed it

comment by ukd1 · 2014-06-25 · in MongoDB World Keynote from Eliot Horowitz [video]

…your idea. As for examples: - the guidelines for the MongoDB project (not bad, I think) are here: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rs... - and the Contributor Guidelines for Chef are quite good too:…

comment by IanWhalen · 2012-11-25 · in Ask HN: What Are Some Good GitHub "Contributing" Examples?

…true or false given that 10gen is generally working more openly than those who criticize them: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo

comment by latch · 2011-11-10 · in 10gen's response to MongoDB's slams

I haven't ever used MongoDB but got interested, and first non-trivial source file I picked is this: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/db/btree.cpp Take a look at for example: bool BtreeBucket<V>::find Without even thinking about…

comment by mushishi · 2011-11-06 · in Don't use MongoDB

…ISA. An easy way we got a 5% boost in througput in mongodb was to force them to call into glibc. https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/pch.h#L47-56

comment by mathias_10gen · 2011-10-14 · in What is your favourite C programming trick?

…button. Secondly, the tab it brings you to makes it look like there's nothing to download. Look at: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/downloads The text makes it seem like an error almost..then I saw the buttons.

comment by latch · 2011-10-12 · in Github's new look: The Code Tab

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A new implementation of str(n)cpy

story by knowsequel · 2011-07-19 · 0 comments

…easy. In fact some of our unit tests and all of our tools other than the shell already do this. See https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/tools/tool.cpp#... for the details. The DBDirectClient class implements the full C++ driver…

comment by mathias_10gen · 2011-07-11 · in My weekend project: MongoDB implementation in Ruby

…go ahead and help them? I'm sure they'd be happy to have the assistance. Fork mongo from github at https://github.com/mongodb/mongo . Happy hacking!

comment by gt384u · 2011-03-17 · in MongoDB 1.8 (stable) released

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The commit that makes MongoDB faster (humor)

story by tswicegood · 2011-01-08 · 0 comments

Not mine, but it seems 10gen keeps regular hours: http://github.com/mongodb/mongo/graphs/punch_card

comment by fictorial · 2010-06-06 · in My GitHub Punch Card for SimplyTweet