mLab (originally MongoLab) was a

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-based

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database service which hosted fully-managed

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databases. mLab ran on cloud providers such as

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, as well as various platform-as-a-service providers.

History

In May 2011, MongoLab secured $3 million in first-round funding from Foundry Group, Baseline Ventures,

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, Freestyle Capital, and David Cohen. In October 2012, MongoLab received a follow-on investment of $5 million and shortly thereafter, mLab was named by ''

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'' as one of the 10 most useful cloud databases along with

, Google Cloud SQL,

, Rackspace, and others. In June 2014, MongoDB Inc. announced a fully managed MongoDB-as-a-Service add-on offering on the

store, delivered in collaboration with

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and MongoLab. In February 2016, MongoLab changed its name to mLab. In October 2018, mLab announced that it would be acquired by MongoDB Inc. All engineers at mLab were invited to join MongoDB Inc and existing customers will be transitioned to MongoDB Atlas instances. The acquisition closed on January 31, 2019.

Data centers

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

* Amazon Web Services (AWS) *

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Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

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References

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