Seven Databases in Seven Weeks

Chapter 5MongoDB

MongoDB is in many ways like a power drill. Your ability to complete a task is framed largely by the components you choose to use (from drill bits of varying size to sander adapters). MongoDB’s strength lies in versatility, power, ease of use, and ability to handle jobs both large and small. Although it’s a much newer invention than the hammer, it is increasingly a tool builders reach for quite often.

First publicly released in 2009, MongoDB is a rising star in the NoSQL world. It was designed as a scalable database—the name Mongo comes from “humongous”—with performance and easy data access as core design goals. It is a document database, which allows data to persist in a nested state, and importantly, it can query that nested ...