mLab (originally MongoLab) was a San Francisco-based cloud database service which hosted fully-managed MongoDB databases. mLab ran on cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, as well as various platform-as-a-service providers.
History In May 2011, MongoLab secured $3 million in first-round funding from Foundry Group, Baseline Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Freestyle Capital, and David Cohen.Cloud Database Provider MongoLab Raises $3 Million From Foundry, Baseline, And Others – TechCrunch
In October 2012, MongoLab received a follow-on investment of $5 million and shortly thereafter, mLab was named by Network World 10 of the most useful cloud databases as one of the 10 most useful cloud databases along with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud SQL, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, and others.
In June 2014, MongoDB Inc. announced a fully managed MongoDB-as-a-Service add-on offering on the Microsoft Azure store, delivered in collaboration with Microsoft and MongoLab. MongoDB announces fully managed service on Microsoft Azure
In February 2016, MongoLab changed its name to mLab.MongoLab Changes Its Name To mLab As It looks Beyond Database Management
In October 2018, mLab announced that it would be acquired by MongoDB Inc. All engineers at mLab were invited to join MongoDB Inc and existing customers will be transitioned to MongoDB Atlas instances. The acquisition closed on January 31, 2019.
Data centers
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Heroku
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