Case Study: MTV Networks achieves a unified, scalable CMS with MongoDB

MTV Networks - Customer Case Study

MTV Networks, which runs hundreds of high-traffic sites like spike.com, comedycentral.com and nick.com, needed a unified content management system after years of independently evolved properties and a commercial Java CMS that shoehorned rich documents into an ill-fitting data model. Attempts to move to a relational schema stalled because adding tables and types degraded read performance and blocked the platform’s evolution as new brands were added.

MTV selected MongoDB for its document model and flexible schema, which made it easy to represent hierarchical, nested content, build selective indexes for fast queries, and scale via replica sets without shared disk. The result was a unified Java-based CMS that met each brand’s needs, improved query performance and operational simplicity, and let developers focus on features rather than backend storage.

MTV Networks

Jeff Yemin

MTV