MongoDB

The best known document database: JSON-like documents, flexible schemas and sharding built in. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Category
database engine
Developer
MongoDB, Inc.
Created by
Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, Kevin Ryan
First release
2009
License
SSPL-1.0
Open source
No
Pricing
Free with paid plans
Website
https://www.mongodb.com
Written in
C++
Data model
Document, Vector, Search
Storage layout
Document
Workload
Transactions (OLTP)
Analytics architecture
Not an analytics platform
Query language
MQL
ACID transactions
Yes
Schema
Flexible
Deployment
Server, Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
Scaling
Sharding
Create, read, update, delete
Create: fast (Fast document inserts); Read: fast (Whole documents in one read); Update: fast (Atomic in-place field updates); Delete: fast (Cheap single and bulk deletes)

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