back to article Microsoft really wants those MongoDB devs to move to DocumentDB

Microsoft reeeaally wants MongoDB developers to get onto Azure, and as such has announced support for Mongo's wire protocol for those who've declined offers to migrate to DocumentDB. Adding support for MongoDB's wire protocol – the protocol by which the open-source software gets data from point to point – will now allow …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Embrace, extend, extinguish

    Microsoft implements the wire protocol to lure people onto Azure. Then they introduce some additional "features" and non-standards behavior so people using it are stuck on Azure.

    Let's all stay away from this.

  2. Tim99 Silver badge

    Hmm

    Microsoft, MongDB, and Java, my flabber is ghasted...

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    JSON

    For some reason I was expecting the MongoDB wire protocol to be serialized JSON. It's not as horrible as I expected.

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