Mongo DB
is one of newest database introduced by 10gen .Mongo DB is an open source, on
the whole a document oriented Database system and is a part of NoSQL family of
database. Despite the fact that it’s not a relational database it has some of
the imperative features of RDBMS and has got implausible speed. This DB is used
in Projects like Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) , MTV
networks and many others
Instead of
storing data in tables here rows are replaced by Documents (basic unit of Data
in Mongo DB just like a ROW in RDMS) and Collections (collection is a group of
documents.) which allow representing complex relationships. It can manage huge
amount of data and can load data across a cluster. Mongo DB can perform some
features which relational database cannot do.
Below are
some of the Features of Mongo DB:
- Mongo DB supports Map
reduce and Aggregation Tools
- Java Scripts are used
instead of Procedures
- Mongo DB is a schema
less Database
- Most Importantly Mongo
DB supports secondary indexes and geospatial indexes.
- Simple to Administer the
Mongo DB in cases of failures
- Mongo DB designed to
provide High Performance
- MongoDB stores files of
any size without complicating your stack.
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