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MongoDB Delivers NoSQL Flexibility and Scalability to Developers

One of the most popular open source NoSQL solutions is MongoDB, a solution which was released only last year yet is already seeing widespread adoption within enterprises such as github, The New York Times, and etsy. MongoDB stores data using a data structure which is “schemaless.”

The rise of MongoDB and the NoSQL database in general has promoted a radical new approach to data management, which is already replacing the use of relational databases in surprising places. NoSQL is a generic term for a database that does away with the notion of a formally defined schema and instead relies upon some other management approach such as a key-value store. These alternative approaches strive to provide developers with levels of flexibility, availability, and scalability not easily attainable using traditional relational databases.

Already in production use within mammoth online enterprises such as Amazon.com (Dynamo), Facebook (see Cassandra), and Google (see BigTable), the NoSQL movement is playing a major role in the operation of today’s Web, let alone the Web of tomorrow.

This article provides an introduction to MongoDB for developers, describing installation, the MongoDB shell, and using MongoDB with PHP.

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