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MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide Learn the skills you need to work with the world's most popular NoSQL database

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Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343533
Length 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Documents, collections, and database

In order fully to understand how to use MongoDB, it is important to discuss the terms used to describe MongoDB data structures: documents, fields, and collections. The following table summarizes these three terms by way of illustration. In this table, we also draw an equivalence between MongoDB and RDBMS (Relational Database Management Systems):

MongoDB
RDBMS
Illustration
Document Row
Field Column
Collection Table

In the preceding example, we see a document that represents information about a member whose name is Smith. Within the document are fields, the example highlighted being cost. Documents that are stored together for a single logical purpose represent a collection. A MongoDB database consists of one or more collections.

The astute reader will no doubt notice the lack of the MongoDB equivalent to a traditional...
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