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Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development
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Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development

by Brad Dayley
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
696 pages
38h 52m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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MongoDB Data Types

The BSON data format provides several different types that are used when storing the JavaScript objects to binary form. These types match the JavaScript types as closely as possible. It is important to understand these types because you can actually query MongoDB to find objects that have a specific property which has a value of a certain type. For example, you can look for documents in a database whose timestamp value is a String object or query for ones whose timestamp value is a Date object.

MongoDB assigns each of the data types an integer ID number from 1 to 255 that is used when querying by type. Table 11.1 shows a list of the data types that MongoDB supports, along with the numbers MongoDB uses to identify them.

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