Ever since Oracle extended its self-driving database and aggressively priced it for JSON developers, we've been wondering when they would come out and meet MongoDB developers where they live.

Oracle is well-known for its relational database of the same name but has now embedded unstructured JSON support right through its data management stack - making a path for MongoDB developers to ...

Oracle has introduced the availability of Autonomous JSON Database-a new developer-friendly database service. Autonomous JSON Database stores JSON documents in a native tree-oriented binary format.

XML, graph, spatial and JSON document data can all be managed inside the core Oracle database engine. “With the others, you don’t get any of the benefits of a converged database,” Venzl said.