AWS continues to expand its serverless database offerings, aiming to help improve cost and lower operational complexity.

In previous columns, we've noted that the SQL language is in the ascendant. New SQL native databases such as CockroachDB and Yugabyte are showing robust adoption, while non-relational (NoSQL) ...

MongoDB is replacing its founding chief technology officer with a veteran who has come straight from the relational database world. Mark Porter, most recently CTO of Singapore-based Grab, a ride ...

At its annual MongoDB World conference in New York this week, the company announced a slew of new features across its products, including a new version of its flagship database, MongoDB 6.0, along ...

MongoDB is a NoSQL database. This means that instead of storing data in tables, like a relational, SQL database, MongoDB stores data in JSON files, also known as document-based storage.

MongoDB is leading the way within the NoSQL non-relational database space, controlling the strongest market share. The bull thesis for MongoDB relies on MongoDB’s clear-cut leadership in the ...

We still rely on relational databases and will for some time, as I wrote back in 2016. And yet it’s equally true that enterprises increasingly depend on non-relational databases like MongoDB.

Of course, Oracle is not the only multimodel database out there; JSON document support has become a checklist item for many relational platforms -- IBM, Snowflake, Teradata, and others.

Indexing in MongoDB behaves similarly to indexing in a relational database: It creates additional data about a document’s field to speed up lookups that rely on that field.