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 …

[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.

[Tim99]

Hmm

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

[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.