SURVEY ON MONGODB: AN OPEN-SOURCE DOCUMENT DATABASE

MongoDB is open source cross platform database. It is classified as NoSQL (Not Only SQL). It is written in C++ and it follows document oriented data model. It is database model which provides dynamic schema. It uses features like Map/Reduce, Auto-sharding and MongoDump etc. Using these features MongoDB provides high performance, where Map/Reduce is efficient data arrangement, Auto-sharding is storing data on across the different machines, Backup facilities and many more. It has collections as table and each collection can store different kinds of data. It stores data in JSON like structure. Unlike the RDBMS databases it can store unstructured data as well. It can process and handle large amount of data more efficiently than RDBMS. It is ACID system like RDBMS databases. MongoDB mainly used in such application which produces and uses vast amount of data. Like blogs or sites which produces or stores unstructured data. It can be used to in applications which stores structured and semi-structured data as well.