Artwork

Content provided by Tomasz Nurkiewicz. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Tomasz Nurkiewicz or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast App
Go offline with the Player FM app!

#82: MongoDB: the most popular NoSQL database

4:14
 
Share
 

Manage episode 338030134 series 2680464
Content provided by Tomasz Nurkiewicz. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Tomasz Nurkiewicz or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

MongoDB is a NoSQL database. Precisey speaking, it’s a document-oriented database. It stores arbitrarily complex key-value objects. For example, in a single Car object you can store as much information as you want. Not only license plate or manufacturing year. But also information about each individual part, history of repairs, insurance and all owners. No matter how much information you want to keep, you just put that in a single, easily accessible document. Contrast that to relational databases, where each relationship has to be modelled as a separate table. So the same Car would have been spread across tens of tables. Imagine all these SQL JOINs! No wonder why MongoDB is one of the most popular databases.

Read more: https://nurkiewicz.com/82

Get the new episode straight to your mailbox: https://nurkiewicz.com/newsletter

  continue reading

98 episodes

Artwork
iconShare
 
Manage episode 338030134 series 2680464
Content provided by Tomasz Nurkiewicz. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Tomasz Nurkiewicz or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

MongoDB is a NoSQL database. Precisey speaking, it’s a document-oriented database. It stores arbitrarily complex key-value objects. For example, in a single Car object you can store as much information as you want. Not only license plate or manufacturing year. But also information about each individual part, history of repairs, insurance and all owners. No matter how much information you want to keep, you just put that in a single, easily accessible document. Contrast that to relational databases, where each relationship has to be modelled as a separate table. So the same Car would have been spread across tens of tables. Imagine all these SQL JOINs! No wonder why MongoDB is one of the most popular databases.

Read more: https://nurkiewicz.com/82

Get the new episode straight to your mailbox: https://nurkiewicz.com/newsletter

  continue reading

98 episodes

All episodes

×
 
Loading …

Welcome to Player FM!

Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.

 

Quick Reference Guide