24 MongoDB
Databases without SQL: This was unthinkable until some time ago, but it’s now an accepted alternative approach. MongoDB is one of the best-known representatives of the “NoSQL” movement.
Relational databases based on tables and with SQL as the query language have been the industry standard for decades. For some years now, however, there have been modern alternatives that rely on a different model, commonly referred to as NoSQL (nomen est omen). Instead of information in relations and tables, data records are stored—usually in a variation of the JSON format, but in principle as name-value pairs. Depending on the type of application, this may be an alternative. Due to the dynamic nature of a NoSQL database, the integration of data may ...
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