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Node.js: Tools & Skills, 2nd Edition
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Node.js: Tools & Skills, 2nd Edition

by James Hibbard, Michael Wanyoike, Nilson Jacques, Jay Raj, Manjunath M
April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
100 pages
1h 40m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 7: Introduction to MongoDB

by Manjunath M. and James Hibbard

MongoDB is a cross-platform, open-source, NoSQL database, used by many modern Node-based web applications to persist data.

In this beginner-friendly tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to install Mongo, then start using it to store and query data. I’ll also look at how to interact with a Mongo database from within a Node program, and also highlight some of the differences between Mongo and a traditional relational database (such as MySQL) along the way.

Terminology and Basic Concepts

MongoDB is a document-oriented database. This means that it doesn’t use tables and rows to store its data, but instead collections of JSON-like documents. These documents support embedded fields, so ...

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