MongoDB, a leading NoSQL database company, today announced their association with BSB’s Hike Messenger, India’s fasted growing cross-platform messaging application. Through this engagement in India, Hike messenger will utilize MongoDB management services to manage its database servers.
Commenting on this partnership, Kamal Brar, General Manager, Asia Pacific at MongoDB, said, “This partnership comes at a crucial time as BSB’s Hike messenger recently crossed the 15 million user mark from just 5 million in a span of 9 months only making it one of the leading messaging applications in the country. With its natural development model, MongoDB will provide Hike App with the platform to cater and scale its operations across a variety of applications.”
Mr. Brar, MongoDB further added, “We will provide MongoDB database subscriptions for Hike’s messaging platform ensuring enterprise-grade capabilities, uptime and scalability to meet its demanding subscriber growth.”
MongoDB has collaborated with organizations worldwide and currently has a thriving global community with more than 7 million downloads of its open-source database, 1,000 customers, 150,000 online education registrations, 30,000 user group members and 20,000 MongoDB Days attendees. Some of the commonly used cases include operational and analytical big data, content management and delivery, mobile and social infrastructure, user data management and data hub.
“Our user base has sky-rocketed in the past couple of months and, with the surge in daily messaging volume, we knew we needed a partner who could meet our explosive growth.” said Rajat Bansal, CTO, Hike messenger.
As part of MongoDB’s efforts to lure leading developers, ops professionals and executives across the globe, the company is organizing its largest ever event MongoDB World from June 23-25, 2014 in New York.
