Introduction to MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas
Introduction to MongoDB Author: Akshaymon K V What is a database? A database is a structured and organized way of storing information/data. What is MongoDB? MongoDB is a NoSQL database that is used to organize and store data. Let’s see what does it mean to be a NoSQL database. Usually the SQL or traditional databases would use a table structure to store the information, whereas a NoSQL database does not use the same. In-case of MongoDB, it uses documents to store the data instead of ‘rows and columns’ structure. Hence MongoDB is a NoSQL document database . Pic: SQL database structure. Pic: NoSQL database structure Documents in MongoDB are an organized way of storing data in key-value or field-value pairs. For example: { ‘name’: ’Akshay’, ‘age’:’24’ }. These documents are in turn stored in collections. Read more at: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/ MongoDB Atlas MongoDB Atlas is a cloud database service that is built to use for a wide range of applications. And at the core of Atlas,