What is the difference between MongoDB and MySQL?

Although MongoDB and MySQL both are free and open source databases, there is a lot of difference between them in the term of data representation, relationship, transaction, querying data, schema design and definition, performance speed, normalization and many more. To compare MySQL with MongoDB is like a comparison between Relational and Non-relational databases. MongoDB and … Read more

What type of DBMS is MongoDB?

MongoDB is a document oriented DBMS. MongoDB is a NoSQL database management system (DBMS). NoSQL stands for “not only SQL,” and it is a category of database systems that do not strictly adhere to the traditional relational database management system (RDBMS) model. MongoDB is known for its flexible and schema-less data model, making it well-suited … Read more

Is MongoDB better than other SQL databases? If yes then how?

MongoDB is better than other SQL databases because it allows a highly flexible and scalable document structure. For example: One data document in MongoDB can have five columns and the other one in the same collection can have ten columns. MongoDB database are faster than SQL databases due to efficient indexing and storage techniques. The … Read more

What are the different types of NoSQL databases? Give some example.

NoSQL database can be classified as 4 basic types: Key value store NoSQL database Document store NoSQL database Column store NoSQL database Graph base NoSQL databse There are many NoSQL databases. MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchBD, Hypertable, Redis, Riak, Neo4j, HBASE, Couchbase, MemcacheDB, Voldemort, RevenDB etc. are the examples of NoSQL databases. NoSQL databases are designed to … Read more

Which are the different languages supported by MongoDB?

MonggoDB provides official driver support for C, C++, C#, Java, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, Go and Erlang. You can use MongoDB with any of the above languages. There are some other community supported drivers too but the above mentioned ones are officially provided by MongoDB. MongoDB primarily uses BSON (Binary JSON) as its … Read more