MongoDB thus follows a non-relational approach (NoSQL) and, in contrast to traditional relational databases (e.g. MySQL), offers the advantage that the data records can be processed schema-free, i.e. without being related to other data records.
MongoDB is currently the most widely used NoSQL database.
Further advantages of MongoDB:
- Different (also nested) data sets can be easily loaded and saved
- Fast and cost-effective scalability
- High performance
- High flexibility of data structures
- Data exchange with JSON interfaces
- Open source
We Use MongoDB:
- Applications in which differently or freely structured but objectively related data is accessed
- Applications that need to be able to adapt very flexibly to different requirements
- Distribution of extremely large amounts of data to a large number of different servers