What is the use case for MongoDB?

MongoDB being a hugely popular NoSQL database means that there are several use cases where it has succeeded in supporting quality applications with a great time to market delivery time.

Many of its most successful use cases center around the following areas:

  • Integration of siloed data providing a single view of them
  • Internet of Things
  • Mobile applications
  • Real-time analytics
  • Personalization
  • Catalog management
  • Content management

All these success stories share some common characteristics. We will try and break these down in order of relative importance.

Schema flexibility is most probably the most important one. Being able to store documents inside a collection that can have different properties can help ...

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