Document-oriented databases such as MongoDB are schema-less, offering developers more flexibility by reducing the burden of upfront database structure design. In addition, MongoDB stores data in ...

MongoDB is often the first NoSQL database developers will try because it’s so easy to learn. Will Shulman, CEO of MongoLab (a MongoDB-as-a-service provider), says it this way: ...

The design of a schema in MongoDB is just as important as it is in RDBMS. Indeed, schema design can be even more complicated in MongoDB. At least in SQL databases, we have the 'first normal form' ...

Software developers don't need to be told that the 'mongo' in MongoDB means humongous (and the DB is database), it's just one of those things that's obvious. The company itself is an open source ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility ...

Find out the differences between MySQL, an SQL database, and MongoDB, a NoSQL database.

These provide some of the things that SQL-based relational databases do but are tuned heavily for handling the demands of big data. VoltDB falls into this category: it's a high-speed SQL database.

MongoDB is a cross-platform, document-oriented database that is classified in the NoSQL family. That means it’s human-readable and scalable to meet the high demands of enterprise businesses.

Indeed while MongoDB is popular, as I reported from the Visual Studio Live! conference in May in Chicago, there's no shortage of NoSQL databases, depending on your requirements.

10gen is changing its name to MongoDB, the NoSQL technology that it developed and supports. The company said in an announcement of the news that the name unifies the open-source database project ...