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.

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 ...

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 ...

It’s been a while since MongoDB has felt threatened by another document database vendor. Historically, the closest contender for document database dominance was Couchbase, the offspring of the ...

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.

MongoDB today revealed that it’s now supporting multi-document ACID transaction guarantees with version 4.0 of its database. When it becomes generally available later this year, MongoDB says it will ...