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MongoDB - Getting Started

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What is MongoDB? MongoDB is a database that was found in 2007 that is based on the concept of having a non-structured query language. It is powerful, open source and uses a document-oriented data model that presents many benefits such as being easy to scale, faster access of data(even when working with large data sets) and not the mention being heavily supported. These attributes keep MongoDB ahead of its competition and are the reasons why it is still being used in many tech companies today. Benefits of  MongoDB Flexibility  - If you are a developer that despises the concept of rows, columns and complex joins, then you will definitely feel at ease working with MongoDB. MongoDB uses collections(which are tables in Relational Database Management Systems) which can contain a set of documents. These documents can then vary between one another which allows them to be more dynamic since they do not have to abide to the defined structure. To take the whole dynamic concept even further