MongoLab has raised $3 million from investors during a recent Series A funding round.

The round was led by Foundry Group, Baseline Ventures, GRP Partners, Freestyle Capital, David Cohen, and others.

The investors’ list includes those who invested in other cloud infrastructure operations.

MongoLab is a cloud-based database provider. It was started by ObjectLabs, which is headquartered in San Francisco.

“We want to help revolutionize the database world by providing developers with the absolute best tools and platforms for successfully using MongoDB,” MongoLab explains on its website.

“MongoLab is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider for MongoDB, 10gen’s scalable, open-source, document-oriented database currently being used by companies like Foursquare, bit.ly, and Etsy (News - Alert). MongoLab enables cloud-based hosting for MongoDB users on Amazon’s EC2 and Rackspace, and manages replication, backups, monitoring and uptime — the tedious stuff…,” explains Tech Crunch.

It also features tools for web-management. For app developers, MongoLab lets clients to directly connect to the database through JSON REST API.

“This is huge for mobile and AJAX applications, because the traditional way of writing the backends of mobile apps is to create a REST API intermediary between the device and the database storing the app’s data, but MongoLab allows developers to skip writing a custom server app, cutting out the middle man,” Tech Crunch said.

“Developers have spent the better part of their careers writing code to change the shape of their data between object form and relational form. I recently heard one VP of Engineering refer to it as ‘our Vietnam,’” MongoLab CEO Will Shulman told Tech Crunch. “Since JSON is an object format, MongoDB makes a lot of these problems disappear. Developers have been waiting years for something like this.”

MongoLab is currently in beta testing for multi-tenant database plans and as a Heroku add-on and is in alpha testing with a dedicated server offering, Tech Crunch said.

Developers can begin testing MongoLab by using a free plan, Tech Crunch adds.

Investor, the Foundry Group, also invested in such companies as Trada, TMCnet said.