Now that we have the MySQL server installed, we can begin to learn more about what the document store is and how we can begin to work with it. The core concept is JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) documents. What we discover is that MySQL has two ways to work with JSON documents: a pure NoSQL document store mechanism complete with a full developer application programming interface and a very cool integration of JSON with relational databases.
The origins of the MySQL document store lie in several technologies that are leveraged together to form the document store. In particular, ...
