Chapter 8: An Introduction to MongoDB
by Manjunath M
MongoDB is an open-source, document-oriented, NoSQL database program. If you’ve been involved with the traditional, relational databases for long, the idea of a document-oriented, NoSQL database might indeed sound peculiar. “How can a database not have tables?”, you might wonder. This tutorial introduces you to some of the basic concepts of MongoDB and should help you get started even if you have very limited experience with a database management system.
What’s MongoDB?
Here’s what the official documentation has to say about MongoDB.
MongoDB is an open-source database developed by MongoDB Inc. that’s scalable and flexible. MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure. ...
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