MongoDB is an open-source document-oriented database, not a traditional relational database, written in C++ by Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz. Being a document database does not mean storing ...

Document databases such as MongoDB garnered rapid and strong support from application developers for multiple reasons. But clearly, one of those reasons is the support for flexible schemas. In the ...

MongoDB initially gained traction as a backend for web applications, in which it was mostly concerned with so-called “CRUD” operations—creating, reading, updating, and deleting documents. Since then, ...