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Case Study: The National Archives achieves a scalable, high-performance online catalogue with MongoDB
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The National Archives - Customer Case Study
The National Archives, custodian of over 1,000 years of UK records from the Domesday Book to modern government papers, faced an aging catalogue built on relational databases and disparate applications. As the catalogue doubled in size since 1998 and was projected to reach hundreds of terabytes — then petabyte scale — the existing system struggled with scalability, performance and ease of search, often requiring specialist knowledge to find records.
To modernize, the Archives adopted a Service Oriented Architecture and a Business Information Architecture that centralized data as managed corporate assets, and selected MongoDB for its scalability, flexible metadata storage and performance. The new Discovery catalogue (beta April 2011, full production November 2012) runs on a .NET/C# stack with MMS monitoring; the database is growing (117 GB and rising) with architecture designed to scale to the anticipated petabyte volumes.
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