I’ve been looking for an excuse to play with MongoLab’s DBaaS for a while…so when I had to choose a database for my latest IBM Bluemix application, MongoDB was first on my list. I like the idea of a document-oriented database as an alternative to the traditional RDBMS, and I was keen to try this in a real-world context.
As it turned out, MongoDB’s document-oriented structure was a great fit for my idea of a fast, searchable, color-coded notepad in the cloud. Each “note” is modeled as a document in a MongoDB collection, and full-text searches across the documents in the collection are extremely efficient. Thanks to MongoLab’s browser-based management, it was also very easy to configure and connect the MongoDB database to the PHP application running on Bluemix.
The end result is a low-overhead mobile Web application that lets you store, categorize and search free-form text notes in the cloud. Check it out on Github, or read more in this IBM developerWorks article.