NoSQL databases have surged in popularity as organizations struggle to serve highly distributed Web applications, but navigating the various types of NoSQL databases and the vendors providing them has ...

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Document-oriented databases (also called: aggregate databases, document databases or document stores) place each record, and its associative data, inside single documents. This database type is a ...

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While relational databases rely on rigid structures, document databases are much more natural to work with and can be used for a variety of use cases across industries. A document database (also known ...

“The right tool for the right job.” If such wisdom holds true anywhere, it certainly holds true with the choice of database a developer picks for a given application. Document databases, one of the ...

A document database is a type of nonrelational database that is designed to store and query data as JSON-like documents. Document databases make it easier for developers to store and query data in a ...

As organizations work to manage more data each day, choosing the right schema for applications is critical. MongoDB Inc.’s document database uses a flexible schema approach, which is popular with ...

MongoDB is a document-oriented database that accelerates applications’ development timeframe. Compared with traditional SQL databases, MongoDB allows developers to store data in a more flexible format ...