MongoDB Introduction

In this tutorial you will learn about the MongoDB Introduction and its application with practical example.

What is MongoDB?

MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform document-oriented database program written in C++, and developed by MongoDB Inc. It is a document-oriented database that uses JSON like document to store the record, data is stored in key-value pairs. MongoDB is used to store high volume data in high-performance enterprise application, where it provides high performance, availability, and scalability. MongoDB is a NoSQL database, it means you need not to specify schema beforehand. Instead, you can create fields on the fly.

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MongoDB is used as database component in MEAN software stack, using a document-oriented database such as MongoDB allows you to work with JSON-like documents for your entire development stack. The benefit of using MongoDB is that you are able to work with JSON on the frontend (Angular), the backend (Node), and the database (MongoDB).

It is an open-source program and available free under the GNU Affero General Public License and Apache License

Why MongoDB?

  • It supports dynamic and flexible, that allow your database schema to evolve as per business requirements.
  • With MongoDB, it’s easy to replicate database across multiple distributed data centers, in order to achieve increased levels of availability.
  • With MongoDB’s built-in auto-sharding feature, it is easy to partition and spread out data across multiple servers, in order to achieve increased levels of scalability which was not possible with relational databases like MySQL.
  • MongoDB is perfect to store large volumes of data.
  • MongoDB documents(records) can easily be mapped as per object-oriented programming languages, thus it removes the need of complex object-relational mapping (ORM) layer.
  • It simplifies the development.
  • It support rapid application development.

Where to use MongoDB?

  • Catalog and Content Management System
  • Big Data
  • Data Analytics
  • Internet of Things(IoT)
  • Location-based data analytics
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Mobile Apps
  • Data Personalization to tailor user’s experience

Where not to use MongoDB?

  • Complex Transaction Intensive Systems
  • Tightly Coupled Database Schema

Who uses MongoDB?

MongoDB is trusted by large enterprises running high-performance mission-critical enterprise applications. Below is a list of a few of them –
Adobe
LinkedIn
SAP
McAfee
eBay
etc.

 

In this tutorial we have learn about the MongoDB Introduction and its application with practical example. I hope you will like this tutorial.