AWS DocumentDB Not MongoDB-Compatible, Says MongoDB Inc

Coverage from The Register of Mark Porter’s comments at AWS re:Invent about DocumentDB’s compatibility claims. “It is not MongoDB compatible. That is an untruth… it is 34 per cent compatible, through our tests. Most importantly, for our users and our customers, it is not compatible in all the ways that make MongoDB magical.” — Mark Porter, MongoDB CTO Read the full article on The Register

December 6, 2021 · Tim Anderson, The Register

Oracle Media Server: Providing Consumer Based Interactive Access to Multimedia Data

Published in: Proceedings of the 1994 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ‘94), Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp. 470-477. Authors: Andrew Laursen, Jeffrey Olkin, Mark Porter (New Media Division, Oracle Corporation) The paper describes the Oracle Media Server, a platform for distributed client-server computing and access to data over asymmetric real-time networks. With the introduction of broadband communications to the home and better than 100-to-1 compression techniques, a new form of network-based computing was emerging where structured data was still important, but the bulk of data became unstructured: audio, video, news feeds, etc. ...

July 2, 1994 · Mark Porter