Introduction to MongoDB

MongoDB is one of the most popular NO-SQL databases. The word is derived from humongous.

It’s a relatively new breed of database that has no concepts of tables, joins, foreign keys, transactions etc.

It is an open-source document-oriented database developed by MongoDB inc. in 2009.

So MongoDB doesn’t use table, row, column format to store data, rather it uses a storage format called BSON which is similar to JSON.

MongoDB is used for high volume data storage.

A simple MongoDB structure :

{
  name:'Jack',
  age:22,
  city:'brooklyn'
}

Key components of MongoDB Architecture

Database

It is a physical container for data. We can store multiple databases on a single MongoDB server.

Document

A set of key-value pairs is known as Document.

Basically, a record is called a document that is associated with a dynamic schema. The benefit of having a dynamic schema is that a document in a single collection does not have to possess the same structure or field.

Collection

This is a grouping of MongoDB documents.

Consider the collection as Table in RDBMS. The entire collection exists within a single database.

There is no schema when it’s come to a collection.

Why use MongoDB?

• Document Oriented: Instead of multiple relation structure like RDBMS, MongoDB stores the data in document format. This makes MongoDB very flexible and adaptable to real business.
• Indexing : Indexes can be created to improve performance of search within MongoDB.
• MongoDB has exceptional scalability. It makes it easy to fetch the data and provides continuous and automatic integration. Along with these benefits, there are multiple reasons why you need MongoDB:
• No downtime while the application is being scaled
• Performs in-memory processing.
• Text search.
• Graph processing.
• Global replication.

Difference between MongoDB and MySQL:

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