Rackspace launches availability of high-performance MongoDB database-as-a-service in Hong Kong

BANGALORE, INDIA: Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud company, launched ObjectRocket, its NoSQL MongoDB Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), in Hong Kong.

The service will help Rackspace's customers in Hong Kong to scale and manage big data in the cloud for today's most demanding applications. The offering is built upon hardware optimised specifically for MongoDB and easily accessed and integrated into existing systems.

As data continues to increase exponentially, big data spending in the Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) region is predicted to reach $1.02 billion in 2014 and will grow at a CAGR of 34.1 percent through 2017, according to analyst firm IDC.

ObjectRocket is a sharded and fully managed MongoDB service built with a set of tools and APIs designed to maximise uptime and reduce administration efforts for big data applications - all supported by Fanatical Support. It is highly scalable allowing it to grow with customers' business needs. In addition, data is multiplexed across many physically separate systems - helping to minimise the possibility of downtime.