Changing databases is not a move to be taken lightly, especially when the switch is to a relatively new kind of database.

The Weather Channel, however, found that it had to switch to a NoSQL MongoDB data store in order to more quickly develop apps and add features to its range of Internet-based weather information services.

“There was an awful lot of work to do in wrestling the tools into doing what we wanted,” said Luke Kolin, vice president at The Weather Channel in charge of architecture. “There was just too much boiler plate and drudge work.”

For over a decade, the weather-oriented cable television channel had relied on a traditional enterprise IT stack, including Java Enterprise Edition, Apache Tomcat Java servlet containers and MySQL databases.

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