The Union of Red Hat Enterprise OS and MongoDB

The announcement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that it is taking its collaboration with MongoDB into a whole new level may not be as exciting as say, Samsung’s announcement of a new phone model. But for users of identity management systems, the news is very important for a lot of reasons. For one, deeper collaboration between the two companies marks a growing trend of large-scale data service, especially as far as established brands are concerned. Industry insiders are seeing the move as a positive one for the sector as well as for future developments.

To understand the gravity of the news, it is essential to have some knowledge of identity management first. According to Kelly Stirman, product marketing manager for 10gen, the authority behind MongoDB, identity management is a complete infrastructure through which companies manage identities of their employees, payroll records and more through several platforms and applications. Shop management across the world use MongoDB for this purpose as it serves with increased flexibility and control.
Introduced back in 2009, MongoDB has already been installed on more than 4 million systems, and sites like Craigslist and Foursquare use this documentation system to keep track of their product inventory, employee record, payroll management and more. Though to date, most machines using MongoDB were still basically windows-based while MongoDB itself used windows systems to run its system tests, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) provided easy installation tools to integrate MongoDB into its system. But all of these facts change due to the recent announcement – an agreement between the two parties.
Due to the newly formed relationship, shops that already use RHEL would find it fairly easy to introduce MangoDB on their system, while shops already running MongoDB would be encouraged to go for RHEL because of the direct link of control that has been formed between them. For instance, in the case of systems which already run RHEL with identity management integrated in them – MongoDB can simply manipulate the user IDs and related group settings and permissions to form its specialized Single Sign On (SSO) infrastructure, helping the organization run a uniform and smooth system.
The upshot of this would be that with RHEL’s identity management’s capability to manipulate data over platforms and applications coupled with MongoDB’s data management tools, managing information over different applications would be very smooth. It would relieve the users of importing and then managing redundant data in a tiresome fashion, while making data fetching a piece of cake.
Also, as mentioned before, most of MongoDB’s test procedures used to be conducted on windows-based systems. However, with this coupling, MongoDB and 10gen would certainly be interested in coming up with newer versions and features for its data management systems optimized for RHEL-based shops.
Also, right after the union between the two of them, RHEL introduced its 6.4 version, consisting of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for the purpose of directory and user authentication, which combined most of the famous Windows Active Directory. With MongoDB as its ally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux can certainly look to the future with an eye for further development.