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.
Not to be confused with Amazon DocumentDB, another MongoDB-compatible NoSQL database powered by PostgreSQL.