Abstract: The name MongoDB comes from "humongous". MongoDB is a so-called NoSQL DBMS (Database Management System). Its most notable key-features are: FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software), horizontally scalable, very fast, schema-less, document-oriented, written in C++ with native drivers to most programming languages out there e.g. C, C++, C# & .NET, ColdFusion, Erlang, Factor, Java, JavaScript