I've done some research and it seems to imply that at least in 2011, the big endian/little endian problem prevented this since PPC cores were not compatible with the MongoDB server.
Has this changed? Or is it still impossible to get it running on an IBMi?
I'm confused since Zend seems to be supporting MongoDB now and is a major part of a web framework on an IBMi server.
It appears that using mongodb entirely on the IBMi is out of the question, is there a reliable NoSQL alternative with collections that would work? Perhaps one with a SAVF or RPM so it works out of the box?
The MongoDB core server is little endian.
What you can do is have the drivers on the IBMi, as most of them are big endian, and the Mongo DB core servers on a little endian machine (AMD64 or Intel x86_64)