A humongous announcement!

We are delighted to announce public support for MongoDB in true Scalr fashion: self-managed, automatically scaled, and easily configurable.

Mongo takes its name from the adjective “humongous,” and it’s a NoSQL database designed for scalability and developer agility. Big names like foursquare, Intuit, and Shutterfly (among others) all use Mongo.

Up until now, our users had to create their own Mongo roles, scale them manually, and write their own scripts to manage clusters of Mongo instances. You had to dig into the Mongo docs to figure out whether to add a replica set or a new shard, dig deeper to find out how to do so, and even deeper to find out the best way of doing it. And that doesn’t even cover the complexity of scaling down.

Check mongo status from your farm's options

Scalr feels your pain, and that’s why we’re rolling out this new automated role for Mongo. Need more write capacity? Click to add a new shard. Need more read capacity? Click to add a new replica set.

Add shards and replica sets with ease!

While you’re playing around with Mongo, we’d love to hear feedback from our users. Email us at suggestions@scalr.com to let us know how the process works for you. In the meantime, we’re working on adding configuration presets for it.

Ready to get this party sharded? Start by creating a new farm at https://my.scalr.net/#/farms/build and adding Mongo found under the database category.