Use cases for MongoDB

Since MongoDB is a highly popular NoSQL database, there have been several use cases where it has succeeded in supporting quality applications, with a great delivery time to the market.

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

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

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

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

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