{"id":185291,"date":"2025-08-26T10:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/?p=185291"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:08:46","slug":"microsoft-entrusts-documentdb-to-linux-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/microsoft-entrusts-documentdb-to-linux-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Entrusts DocumentDB to Linux Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just seven months <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/microsoft-launches-an-open-source-documentdb-database\/\">after the project launch<\/a>, Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/documentdb.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DocumentDB<\/a> is officially joining the Linux Foundation, shifting from company-led development to a vendor-neutral, community-driven model, as part of Microsoft\u2019s ongoing effort to place more of its database technology under open governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s long-term stability, since its roadmap is no longer tied solely to Microsoft\u2019s internal priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/25\/documentdb-joins-the-linux-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/press\/linux-foundation-welcomes-documentdb-to-advance-open-developer-first-nosql-innovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Linux Foundation&#8217;s<\/a> announcements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft donates DocumentDB to the Linux Foundation, ensuring vendor-neutral governance and cross-platform NoSQL database adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[3651,2025,53,5332],"class_list":["post-185291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-news","tag-databases","tag-linux-foundation","tag-microsoft","tag-nosql"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185318,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185291\/revisions\/185318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}