India, June 19 -- MongoDB unveiled a new set of products along with a new strategy on Tuesday, setting the stage for the company to explore more competitive frontiers in data. At this year's MongoDB World conference in New York, the company announced the creation of its Atlas Data Lake, positioning it as an alternative to Microsoft's Azure Data Lake and other incumbent resources. MongoDB also talked up its Atlas Full-Text Search, which lets end users filter and rank their data by relevance. This is all part of the MongoDB's push to show it is a data platform company and not just a database.

During the conference, Dev Ittycheria, CEO of MongoDB, sat down to discuss what the new offerings mean for enterprises and where this new direction w...