This document discusses the growth of the Internet of Things and the need for databases that can handle large amounts of data from connected devices. It notes that by 2020, there will be over 50 billion connected devices generating huge amounts of diverse data. MongoDB is presented as a database that can meet the needs of IoT applications by allowing flexible schemas, easy ingestion of new data types, horizontal scaling through sharding, and high availability through replication. Specific use cases for MongoDB in IoT applications are also mentioned, including Bosch's IoT platform.