Around IT In 256 Seconds
Around IT In 256 Seconds
#82: MongoDB: the most popular NoSQL database
MongoDB is a NoSQL database. Precisey speaking, it’s a
document-oriented database. It stores arbitrarily complex key-value
objects. For example, in a single Car object you can store
as much information as you want. Not only license plate or manufacturing
year. But also information about each individual part, history of
repairs, insurance and all owners. No matter how much information you
want to keep, you just put that in a single, easily accessible document.
Contrast that to relational databases, where each relationship has to be
modelled as a separate table. So the same Car would have
been spread across tens of tables. Imagine all these SQL JOINs! No
wonder why MongoDB is one of the most popular databases.
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