MongoDB
MongoDB is a document-oriented database and is a generalized form of the NoSQL database. This database is popular among the community, especially for use cases such as logging, user profiling, search engines, geolocation data, and configuration storage.
It solves the scalability limitation of relational databases with its distributed architecture. So, it is considered an alternative to SQL databases. The installation and implementation of MongoDB is quite easy. For instance, Coinbase (digital currency exchange) uses MongoDB to build faster applications, diversify data type handling, and for efficient application management purposes. Let's now discuss the advantages and disadvantages of MongoDB.
Advantages of MongoDB
- Since MongoDB stores, the data in consecutive memory locations, querying for one of the fields of the whole document can be retrieved from memory quite easily. Hence, MongoDB does not need to look through the whole disc.
- It supports complex...