MongoDB is Snapdeal's database choice

New Delhi, INDIA: Snapdeal.com, India's online marketplace, has deployed MongoDB's scalable database to manage its extensive product catalog. Through this association, Snapdeal customers will be able to choose from over 4 million products across 500+ categories, from more than 30,000 sellers.

Kamal Brar, general manager, Asia Pacific at MongoDB, said: "With 25 million members, Snapdeal is the largest online marketplace in the country and is contributing to India's growth story in the e-commerce industry. We are pleased to partner with them and contribute to their success. Our document data model provides Snapdeal with a responsive and consistent platform that will enable them to provide more up-to-date and relevant product catalogs as well as better experience to their customers."

Mr. Amitabh Misra, VP - Engineering, Snapdeal.com, said: "Due to the nature of our business, we produce large amounts of structured and unstructured data. Therefore we required a platform that can store various product types in a single database, to make it easy for us to add new products as well as adapt to market demands. MongoDB's database provides us with the architecture which will help us to optimize our performance."