White Paper
Developer Data Platforms: How to Develop Apps in 2024 and Beyond
This white paper examines how database choices affect developer productivity and modern application development. A Foundry survey of more than 100 U.S. developers found that 62% still use relational databases, even as applications increasingly require structured, unstructured, time-series, geospatial, and vector data. Respondents identified challenges including complex relationships, inflexibility, costs, rigid schemas, and limited distributed support. Document databases provide dynamic schemas and data models aligned with object-oriented development, while developer data platforms consolidate capabilities that otherwise require multiple specialized systems. MongoDB Atlas supports generative AI, time series, visualization, event-driven workloads, search, and more on one platform. The paper
