It is an open source document-oriented database where unlike table, we have collections and documents instead of rows/records where document is stored in BSON format which is slightly different from JSON. Like MS SQL Server and Oracle SqlDeveloper for NoSQL, we have mongoDB for NoSQL which is a popular open source database. Just for your reference, you may also check this link. To understand more about NoSQL, you may search for many articles. Just Before Starting, We Will Understand a Bit on What is NOSQL?Ī NoSQL (originally referring to 'non SQL', 'non relational' or 'not only SQL') database provides a mechanism for storage and retrieval of data which is modeled in means other than the tabular relations used in relational databases.

Today, we will get some basic knowledge on all these and try our hands on experience on the basics of mongoDB and rather than going into the theoretical part, we will perform some simple operations which will bring us a confidence in using mongoDB. You might have been hearing terms like “NoSQL”, ”mongoDB” and ”mongoose”. This is an article for beginners’ who are interested in learning mongoDB.

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