As organizations work to manage more data each day, choosing the right schema for applications is critical. MongoDB Inc.’s document database uses a flexible schema approach, which is popular with ...

MongoDB is a document-oriented database that accelerates applications’ development timeframe. Compared with traditional SQL databases, MongoDB allows developers to store data in a more flexible format ...

Amazon Web Service's launch of a new NoSQL database sent shares of MongoDB plummeting Thursday as investors feared the world's largest public cloud would undercut adoption of the extremely popular ...

MongoDB is an open-source document-oriented database, not a traditional relational database, written in C++ by Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz. Being a document database does not mean storing ...

Because any database that does not support the SQL language is, by definition, a "NoSQL" database, some very different databases coexist under the NoSQL banner. Massively scalable data stores like ...

“The right tool for the right job.” If such wisdom holds true anywhere, it certainly holds true with the choice of database a developer picks for a given application. Document databases, one of the ...

MongoDB is a favorite database for developers. As a NoSQL database option, it provides developers with a database environment that has flexible schema design, automated failover, and a ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking a shot at MongoDB Inc. with the launch today of its new Amazon DocumentDB database service. Amazon said DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available and fully ...

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