MongoDB is an open source, document-oriented, and cross-platform database. It is primarily written in C++. It is also the leading NoSQL database and tied with the SQL database in fifth position after PostgreSQL. It provides high performance, high availability, and easy scalability. MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with schema. MongoDB, developed by MongoDB Inc., is free to use. It is published under a combination of the GNU Affero General Public License and the Apache License.
Let's go through the MongoDB features:
- Rich query support: We can query the database as we do with SQL databases. It has a large query set that supports insert, update, delete and select operations. MongoDB supports fields, range queries, and regular expressions. Queries also support the projection where they return a value for specific keys.
- Indexing: MongoDB supports primary and secondary indices in its fields.
- Replication: Replication means providing more than one copy of data. MongoDB provides multiple...