Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0
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This article announces Amazon DocumentDB version 8.0, which delivers significant performance improvements and MongoDB 8.0 compatibility for document database applications.
- Supports MongoDB API versions 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 drivers
- Query latency improved by up to 7x with new Planner Version 3
- Compression ratio improved by up to 5x using Zstandard algorithm
- Adds 6 new aggregation stages including $vectorSearch and $merge
- Introduces 3 new aggregation operators: $pow, $rand, $dateTrunc
- Supports collation and views for enhanced functionality
- Text index v2 improves text search capabilities
- Vector index build time reduced by up to 30x with parallel processing
- Available in all AWS regions; upgrade via AWS Database Migration Service
Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 enables high-performance applications with lower costs through improved query performance, better compression, and expanded MongoDB compatibility.
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