Just seven months after the project launch, Microsoft’s DocumentDB is officially joining the Linux Foundation, shifting from company-led development to a vendor-neutral, community-driven model, as part of Microsoft’s ongoing effort to place more of its database technology under open governance.
DocumentDB is a distributed, PostgreSQL-based NoSQL database designed for handling document-oriented workloads at scale, originally built inside Microsoft to provide high availability and flexibility for JSON data storage.
The Linux Foundation will provide a neutral home for DocumentDB, with technical steering committees and open working groups expected to guide development. This structure is meant to ensure that new features, performance improvements, and long-term support are decided collaboratively, rather than by Microsoft alone.
For developers and organizations, this change opens the door for broader interoperability with other open-source tools and encourages contributions from cloud providers, database vendors, and independent developers. At the same time, it gives users more confidence in the project’s long-term stability, since its roadmap is no longer tied solely to Microsoft’s internal priorities.
For more information, refer to Microsoft’s or the Linux Foundation’s announcements.
