As part of our NoSQL exploration, I’ve spent some time lately with MongoDB. MongoDB bills itself as a “schema-free document-oriented database.” In using MongoDB, I’ve found it to be an easy transition from RDBMS’s because of the way it organizes document-based data. Here’s the basics: MongoDB has collections of data, not tables. Unlike CouchDB, which is also a document-oriented DB, Mongo has names
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