The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if [strangeness] does not exhibit interesting behavior.
—Dan Simmons
MongoDB is a popular cross-platform document database, often lumped into the “NoSQL” classification with other nonrelational data stores such as CouchDB, Cassandra, RavenDB, and so forth. It is a popular choice for data storage among Node.js developers because its “records” are stored as plain JSON objects, and its query interface ...