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MongoDB University Offers Comprehensive Exams Worldwide NEW YORK, NY- Nov 6, 2013 - I am very glad to announce that I have earned certification as a MongoDB Certified DBA, Associate Level .  About a month ago, I was offered to try out MongoDB Certified DBA exam as part of a pilot project, invitations only. Before that, I successfully passed both M101 and M102P courses (well that was almost a year ago).  Invitations were sent to a selected group only, and only 150 first were given a chance to try that exam. It was thrilling to receive congratulating email in my inbox today, saying that I have successfully passed this quite difficult exam. Certificate number is 100-000-011 which indicates me being 11th in the world getting this (links to verify will be available little bit later). According to The 451 Group's analysis of LinkedIn® member profiles, MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL database and now accounts for 49 percent of all mentions of NoSQL technologies. The ...

New York—August 27, 2013—10gen, the MongoDB company, today announced it is changing its name to MongoDB, Inc. The new name more closely unifies the open-source database project with the company behind it. The change is effective immediately. “In 2007, 10gen began work on an open-source cloud computing stack. That was the birth of MongoDB, as the data layer of that platform,” said Dwight Merriman, Chairman and Co-founder at 10gen. “When we saw the potential for the database we had built we decided to focus 100% on MongoDB. Thus the company name 10gen and the database name MongoDB were different. With this change, our goal is to get the names back into alignment.” The MongoDB project, and its mongodb.org community website, are unaffected by this change. 10gen will change its corporate website from 10gen.com to mongodb.com . As part of today’s announcement, 10gen Education, which provides free, online training as well as public and private in-person courses, has been rebranded MongoD...