Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, 2nd Edition

Chapter 4MongoDB

MongoDB is in many ways like a power drill. Your ability to complete a task is framed largely by the components you choose to use (from drill bits of varying size to sander adapters). MongoDB’s strength lies in its versatility, power, ease of use, and ability to handle jobs both large and small. Although it’s a much newer invention than the hammer, it is a tool that builders reach for more and more often.

First publicly released in 2009, MongoDB (often just called Mongo) quickly became one of the most widely used NoSQL databases in existence, and remains somewhere very close to the top—if not right at the top—of that list today. MongoDB was designed as a scalable database—the name Mongo comes from “humongous”—with performance ...