MongoDB is an open-source, document-oriented NoSQL database designed for efficient storage and retrieval of large-scale data. It supports various programming languages and is utilized by major companies for applications like big data management, real-time analytics, and mobile applications. Key features include flexible schema, scalability through sharding, high availability via replication, and a rich query language.
MongoDB is an open-source, document-oriented NoSQL database designed for efficient storage and retrieval of large-scale data. It supports various programming languages and is utilized by major companies for applications like big data management, real-time analytics, and mobile applications. Key features include flexible schema, scalability through sharding, high availability via replication, and a rich query language.
MongoDB is an open-source document-oriented database that is designed to store a large
scale of data and also allows you to work with that data very efficiently. It is categorized under the NoSQL (Not only SQL) database because the storage and retrieval of data in the MongoDB are not in the form of tables. The MongoDB database is developed and managed by MongoDB.Inc under SSPL(Server Side Public License) and initially released in February 2009. It also provides official driver support for all the popular languages like C, C++, C#, and .Net, Go, Java, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Motor, Ruby, Scala, Swift, Mongoid. So, that you can create an application using any of these languages. Nowadays there are so many companies that used MongoDB like Facebook, Nokia, eBay, Adobe, Google, etc. to store their large amount of data. Working of MongoDB MongoDB is a database server and the data is stored in these databases. Or in other words, MongoDB environment gives you a server that you can start and then create multiple databases on it using MongoDB. Because of its NoSQL database, the data is stored in the collections and documents. Hence the database, collection, and documents are related to each other as shown below: Why is MongoDB used? An organization might want to use MongoDB for the following: Storage. MongoDB can store large structured and unstructured data volumes and is scalable vertically and horizontally. Indexes are used to improve search performance. Searches are also done by field, range and expression queries. Data integration. This integrates data for applications, including for hybrid and multi-cloud applications. Complex data structures descriptions. Document databases enable the embedding of documents to describe nested structures (a structure within a structure) and can tolerate variations in data. Load balancing. MongoDB can be used to run over multiple servers. Use Cases •Big Data: Managing large amounts of diverse data types. •Real-Time Analytics: Streaming data applications that require fast, real-time processing. •Content Management Systems: Storing flexible, •unstructured content like images, videos, and other media. •Mobile Applications: Storing JSON-like documents that can be easily synchronized across devices. •IoT Applications: Storing sensor and device-generated data. MongoDB database features Document Oriented: MongoDB stores the main subject in the minimal number of documents and not by breaking it up into multiple relational structures like RDBMS. For example, it stores all the information of a computer in a single document called Computer and not in distinct relational structures like CPU, RAM, Hard disk etc. Indexing: Without indexing, a database would have to scan every document of a collection to select those that match the query which would be inefficient. So, for efficient searching Indexing is a must and MongoDB uses it to process huge volumes of data in very less time. Scalability: MongoDB scales horizontally using sharding (partitioning data across various servers). Data is partitioned into data chunks using the shard key and these data chunks are evenly distributed across shards that reside across many physical servers. Also, new machines can be added to a running database. Replication and High Availability: MongoDB increases the data availability with multiple copies of data on different servers. By providing redundancy, it protects the database from hardware failures. If one server goes down, the data can be retrieved easily from other active servers which also had the data stored on them. Aggregation: Aggregation operations process data records and return the computed results. It is similar to the GROUPBY clause in SQL. A few aggregation expressions are sum, avg, min, max, etc Advantages of MongoDB Flexible Schema: Allows dynamic and schema-less data storage, making it easier to evolve your data model. Scalability: Supports horizontal scaling (sharding) to handle large volumes of data and high traffic. High Performance: Optimized for fast read and write operations, especially with large datasets. High Availability: Built-in replication ensures data redundancy and minimizes downtime. Rich Query Language: Supports powerful queries and aggregation for data processing. Open Source: Free and supported by a large community of developers. Example For example: we have a database named GeeksforGeeks. Inside this database, we have two collections and in these collections we have two documents. And in these documents we store our data in the form of fields. As shown in the below image: