MongoNYC 2012: How MongoDB is Helping Shape the Future of the Music Industry, Buck Heroux, Next Big Sound. MongoDB is helping Next Big Sound change how the music industry uses big data. By marrying social media data with traditional sales data, Next Big Sound creates a central platform for all of the music industries needs with MongoDB working hard behind the scenes. This use case analysis will hit key points such as cluster architecture, document schema, some growing pains, and how Next Big Sound uses MongoDB to store rich event data as well as index hundreds of thousands of artists by their network distribution and geolocation.