MongoDB has long been known as a niche player in the database wars. It’s one of the leading providers in the NoSQL segment of the database market, which emerged to handle data volumes in a scale ...

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 ...

2MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria Dev Ittycheria, president and CEO of MongoDB, said the company is poised to become the “new default” database as enterprises realize the potential of its NoSQL ...

This discussion is based on MongoDB 3.4 and Couchbase Server 4.6. You might also check out my stand-alone reviews of MongoDB 3.4 and Couchbase Server 4.0.

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' ...

Standard SQL databases are not replaced by NoSQL approaches like MongoDB, they merely add to what is now a more diverse total world of databases for us all to enjoy life in.

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

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 ...