Handling BSON-based documents with MongoDB

MongoDB is a NoSQL database that stores JSON-like documents of key-value pairs with a flexible and scalable schema, thus classified as a document-oriented database. It can store huge volumes of data with varying data structures, types, and formations.

These JSON-like documents use Binary Javascript Object Notation (BSON), a binary-encoded representation of JSON documents suitable for network-based data transport because of its compact nature. It has non-JSON-native data type support for date and binary data and recognizes embedded documents or an array of documents because of its traversable structure.

Next, we’ll install MongoDB and compare its process to HBase, Cassandra, and Redis.

Installing and configuring the MongoDB server

First, download the preferred MongoDB community server from https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/community. Install it to your preferred drive and directory. Next, create a data directory where...