MongoDB¶

MongoDB is a semi-structured open-source NoSQL database system, built on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Zenko uses it for several tasks; primary among these is its role of maintaining a freestanding, independent namespace and location mapping of all files held in object storage. Additionally, Zenko uses MongoDB to retain and order metadata associated with the objects stored in these namespaces. As a semi-structured metadata database, MongoDB also offers SQL-like metadata search capacities that can cover tremendous amounts of data at great speed.

As deployed in Zenko, MongoDB also ingests status, log information, and metrics from Prometheus.

MongoDB is essential to the following Zenko features:

Data replication
Metadata search
Health check
Metrics collection
Queue population