MongoDB 9.0 advances performance, scalability, resilience, observability, security, and developer productivity, forming a core pillar of MongoDB’s intelligent data platform for AI.
Purpose-built for demanding enterprise and AI-native use cases, MongoDB 9.0 delivers up to 2x higher throughput and significantly improved price-performance at scale.
Queryable Encryption protects more types of data, in more situations, while expanded private networking in Atlas makes heavily regulated use cases easier to support.
MongoDB 9.0 removes database bottlenecks with stronger performance, resilience, observability, and security, delivering advantages for every role.
DEVELOPERS
Build for demanding workloads
More throughput and faster core operations give applications headroom for higher transaction volumes and concurrency.
DEV OPS & SRE
See, respond, recover
Strengthen resilience and observability so your team can diagnose issues faster and support reliable operation of critical applications.
ARCHITECTS
Build on a durable foundation
Give teams a stronger platform for evolving applications, secure data access, and AI workloads without multiplying infrastructure complexity.
AI ENGINEERS
Govern AI on operational data
Put more AI on governed operational data—without another data tier—with throughput, workload protection, encrypted search, and guardrails.
IT LEADS
Reduce database constraints on growth
A stronger database foundation helps your teams protect reliability, control complexity, and support strategic initiatives.
Get all the latest features with 9.0
Feature
7.0
8.0
9.0
Major performance improvements
—
9.0 scaling efficiency improvements
—
—
Intelligent Workload Management
—
—
Queryable Encryption: prefix, suffix, and substring queries
—
—
Queryable Encryption: range queries
—
Queryable Encryption: equality queries
Schema constraints for database-enforced data rules
—
—
Enhanced Atlas private networking
—
—
Atlas Gen2 compute with flexible storage and IOPS controls
Unified Atlas observability: Metrics UI, OpenTelemetry, and Query Stats
—
Hibernate ORM and HQL support for Java modernization
Need help upgrading?
Do it yourself
Ready to upgrade?
If you’re running a previous version of MongoDB and want to upgrade to version 9.0 check out MongoDB Docs and MongoDB University. You’ll find helpful tutorials and specific instructions for a smooth upgrade process for Atlas or self-managed (Enterprise Advanced and Community Edition).
Get expert help
Major version upgrade service
A MongoDB consulting engineer can help ensure a smooth transition to MongoDB 9.0. You’ll receive guidance on the necessary upgrade steps tailored specifically to your deployment, a walk-through of the upgrade process, and assistance on testing the upgraded application.
MongoDB 9.0 strengthens the foundation for modern applications and evolving AI workloads with improvements across performance, scalability, resilience, observability, security, and developer productivity. It helps teams support more users, transactions, and AI-driven activity before adding infrastructure or rearchitecting applications.
MongoDB 9.0 can be deployed via MongoDB Atlas, self-managed, locally and in various public or private cloud environments.
MongoDB 9.0 delivers significant performance and scalability improvements compared with previous versions, particularly for high-throughput and read-intensive workloads.
9.0 vs 8.0 using internal testing with public benchmarks:
Up to 35% faster find-one queries
Up to 30% faster update-one queries
Up to 2x throughput on large instances
Up to 20% higher throughput for transactional workloads
Start by reviewing the MongoDB 9.0 upgrade documentation and compatibility changes. Back up your data, test the upgrade in a staging environment, confirm support for your operating system and drivers, and then follow the procedure for your deployment. MongoDB Atlas or self-managed (Enterprise Advanced and Community Edition) each have specific upgrade guidance.
As with any major version upgrade, review compatibility changes, deprecations, supported platforms, and driver requirements before you begin. Test your applications against the upgraded deployment, validate your backup and recovery plan, and schedule the change according to your organization’s operational requirements. The exact process and downtime profile depend on your deployment type and topology.
Yes. Each MongoDB major version has its own published lifecycle schedule. Starting with MongoDB 8.0, major versions follow a standard five-year lifecycle. Check the MongoDB Software Lifecycle Schedule for the exact end-of-life date for your current version and plan your upgrade before that date.
MongoDB 9.0 builds on MongoDB 8.0 with higher throughput, faster core operations, improved scaling efficiency, Intelligent Workload Management, expanded Queryable Encryption with prefix, suffix, and substring queries, new schema constraints, enhanced Atlas private networking, and unified observability through the Metrics UI, OpenTelemetry, and Query Stats.
Get started with 9.0 today
Get started on MongoDB Atlas in seconds. Free clusters come with 512 MB of storage and sample data to help you get oriented with our database and platform.
