Chapter 1. Spring Mongo Integration
MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database and is a document-based one too. It is written using the popular and powerful C++ language, which makes it a document-oriented database. Queries are also document-based, and it also provides indexing using JSON style to store and retrieve data. MongoDB works on the concept of collection and documentation.
Let's look at few terminology differences between MySQL and MongoDB:
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MySQL |
MongoDB |
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Table |
Collection |
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Row |
Document |
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Column |
Field |
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Joins |
Embedded documents linking |
In MongoDB, a collection is a set or a group of documents. It is the same as RDBMS tables.
In this chapter, we shall start by setting up a MongoDB NoSQL database and will integrate a spring application with MongoDB ...
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