What is MongoDB?

MongoDB is an open-source document database and leading NoSQL database. MongoDB is written in C++. This tutorial will give you great understanding on MongoDB concepts needed to create and deploy a highly scalable and performance-oriented database.

MongoDB is a cross-platform, document oriented database that provides, high performance, high availability, and easy scalability. MongoDB works on concept of collection and document. MongoDB is a document database in which one collection holds different documents. Number of fields, content and size of the document can differ from one document to another. Structure of a single object is clear. No complex joins. Deep query-ability. MongoDB supports dynamic queries on documents using a document-based query language that's nearly as powerful as SQL. Tuning. Ease of scale-out − MongoDB is easy to scale. Conversion/mapping of application objects to database objects not needed. Uses internal memory for storing the (windowed) working set, enabling faster access of data.