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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. So if they can’t beat ‘em in the DBaaS space, they often feel like they have to join ‘em — to the tune of total stack sharing or some proprietary arrangement.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Tens of petabytes of data stored in our servers and other object stores such as GCS, S3 and Azure Blobstore. Egnyte was founded in 2007. Data interdependence. Cloud Platform.