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Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, 2nd Edition
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Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, 2nd Edition

by Luc Perkins, Eric Redmond, Jim Wilson
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
360 pages
8h 54m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Wrap-Up

We hope this taste of MongoDB has piqued your fancy and showed you how it earns the moniker of the “humongous” database. We covered a lot in a single chapter, but as usual, we only clawed at the surface.

Mongo’s Strengths

Mongo’s primary strength lies in its ability to handle huge amounts of data (and huge amounts of requests) by replication and horizontal scaling. But it also has an added benefit of a very flexible data model. You don’t ever need to conform to a schema and can simply nest any values you would generally join using SQL in an RDBMS.

Finally, MongoDB was built to be easy to use. You may have noticed the similarity between Mongo commands and SQL database concepts (minus the server-side joins). This is not by accident ...

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