An introduction to MongoDB
MONGODB Introduction MongoDB is an Open Source, Document Database which provides high performance and scalability along with data modeling and data management of huge sets of data in an enterprise application. The term ‘NoSQL’ means ‘non-relational’. It means that MongoDB isn’t based on the table-like relational database structure but provides an altogether different mechanism for storage and retrieval of data. This format of storage is called BSON (similar to JSON format). MongoDB is a cross platform database and can be installed across different platforms like Windows, Linux etc. What is Mongo DB? Mongo DB is a document-oriented No SQL database used for high volume data storage. Instead of using tables and rows as in the traditional relational databases, Mongo DB makes use of collections and documents. Documents consist of key-value pairs which are the basic unit of ...