MongoDB is highly scalable, operational document database available in both open source and commercial enterprise versions, and it can be run on premises or as a managed cloud service.

Choosing between schemaless NoSQL databases and strong-schema relational designs isn't an either-or decision, as this case study points out. When dealing with their big data problem, Craigslist ...

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 ...

“MongoDB is the fifth most popular database, and still one-third as widely used as Oracle and MySQL!” Given how reluctant enterprises are to switch out battle-tested databases, even that level ...

"Although MongoDB is not known for storing high volumes of data, it is associated with variety, given its schemaless architecture," Baer said. "The popularity of the 10gen brand is attributable to the ...

MongoDB, of course, offers its own query language, MQL. But for better or worse, data analysts are mostly familiar with SQL and Mongo is going after more of this market.

For a while now, MongoDB has been offering its Aggregation Framework, which allows developers to perform transformations on a stream of documents that comes out of a database.