Thinkbox Software recently announced Deadline 6, the newest version of their render software, which is powered by MongoDB. Deadline is a render management tool used heavily in the visual effects, broadcast and architectural industries. The team chose MongoDB as their database of choice for its JSON-based document structure and speed at handling connections. Deadline solves the problem of manually splitting jobs up between machines to distribute data processing tasks, allowing for faster rendering processes. Many summer movies this year are made with Deadline 6 and used MongoDB as the backend, improving performance numbers. Thinkbox Software switched from a file-based system to MongoDB to scale and hit higher performance numbers, finding improved performance with MongoDB in their tests. In Deadline 6, MongoDB functions as a task queue, controlling the management of third-party render processes and handling data movement. The team believes MongoDB can scale in many orders of magnitude more than before.