# MongoDB.local NYC 2025: Defining the Ideal Database for the AI Era

[MongoDB](https://yomu.fyi/company/mongodb) · Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO, MongoDB · Sep 18, 2025

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

At MongoDB.local NYC, MongoDB introduced new database capabilities, AI integrations, and modernization tools designed for agentic and generative AI workloads. The release of MongoDB 8.2 arrives alongside public previews of Search and Vector Search for both MongoDB Community Edition and Enterprise Server. MongoDB also highlighted Voyage AI embedding models and rerankers to improve retrieval accuracy across raw data, metadata, and embeddings. To address the costs and constraints of legacy infrastructure, the new MongoDB Application Modernization Platform combines AI-assisted tooling and specialized expertise to migrate legacy systems. According to MongoDB, early migrations using this platform run two to three times faster, while code rewriting tasks accelerate by an order of magnitude.

## Context

Enterprises are burdened by the high costs of legacy relational database systems that were not built for modern scale or the memory, context, and state requirements of agentic AI applications.

## Approach / What changed

MongoDB launched MongoDB 8.2, made Search and Vector Search available in public preview for Community Edition and Enterprise Server, integrated Voyage AI embedding models and rerankers, and introduced the MongoDB Application Modernization Platform (AMP).

## Takeaways

- Search and Vector Search are now available in public preview for both MongoDB Community Edition and Enterprise Server.
- The MongoDB Application Modernization Platform (AMP) accelerates enterprise migrations from legacy systems by two to three times and speeds up code rewriting by an order of magnitude.
- MongoDB emphasizes Voyage AI embedding models and rerankers to improve retrieval accuracy across raw data, metadata, and embeddings for AI applications.

**Tags:** [LLMs](https://yomu.fyi/topic/llm), [Migrations](https://yomu.fyi/topic/migration), [Performance](https://yomu.fyi/topic/performance), [Scalability](https://yomu.fyi/topic/scalability), [Search](https://yomu.fyi/topic/search)

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