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JavaScript and JSON Essentials

You're reading from   JavaScript and JSON Essentials Build light weight, scalable, and faster web applications with the power of JSON

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788624701
Length 226 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sai S Sriparasa Sai S Sriparasa
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Bruno Joseph D'mello Bruno Joseph D'mello
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Preface 1. Getting Started with JSON FREE CHAPTER 2. The JSON Structures 3. AJAX Requests with JSON 4. Cross-Domain Asynchronous Requests 5. Debugging JSON 6. Building the Carousel Application 7. Alternate Implementations of JSON 8. Introduction to hapi.js 9. Storing JSON Documents in MongoDB 10. Configuring the Task Runner Using JSON 11. JSON for Real-Time and Distributed Data 12. Case Studies in JSON 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

BSON – a fast-traversal JSON format

We have already learned about BSON implementation in MongoDB. In fact, MongoDB was the first one to leverage BSON fully. We won't learn about other implementations for now, as they are beyond the scope of this book. Interested readers can visit this link for more information: http://bsonspec.org/implementations.html.

As JSON data is converted to binary, there is increase in the speed of traversal of BSON data. BSON extends the JSON data type collection by providing more data type support with respect to binData and Date type. These advantages make BSON capable of using it as a record for any unstructured database design.

If the BSON format is used for data passing over network, as the data is binary, the encoding and decoding of data among different network devices is simpler and can be done at quicker speeds.

BSON is storage...

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