Summary

In this chapter, you learned about NoSQL databases and how they can be useful for modern web development. You also learned about the emerging leader of the NoSQL movement, MongoDB. You took a deeper dive in understanding the various features that makes MongoDB such a powerful solution and learned about its basic terminology. Finally, you caught a glimpse of MongoDB's powerful query language and how to perform all four CRUD operations. In the next chapter, we'll discuss how to connect Node.js and MongoDB together using the popular Mongoose module.

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