2. Documents and Data Types
Overview
This chapter introduces you to MongoDB documents, their structure, and data types. For those who are new to the JSON model, this chapter will also serve as a short introduction to JSON. You will identify the basic concepts and data types of JSON documents and compare the document-based storage of MongoDB with the tabular storage of relational databases. You will learn how to represent complex data structures in MongoDB using embedded objects and arrays. By the end of this chapter, you will understand the need for precautionary limits and restrictions on MongoDB documents.
Introduction
In the previous chapter, we learned how MongoDB, as a NoSQL database, differs from traditional relational databases. ...
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