When a $40 billion database industry giant takes enough interest in a technology to build its own application programming interface for it, that’s an indication the technology has legitimate appeal.

Updates announced at the company’s annual MongoDB World conference this week include new analytics capabilities, a data lake for its Atlas database as a service, and the ability to query encrypted ...

In the last Mongo Matters column, we looked at MongoDB’s new SQL interface for querying data in MongoDB Atlas. Almost all of the “NoSQL” databases today support some form of SQL interface in order to ...

When MongoDB first emerged about 10 years ago, they were arguably the “barbarians at the gate.” MongoDB’s core premise was that the relational model of data was unnatural and inefficient for modern ...

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MongoDB is a document-based database, benefiting from growth in the cloud and the need to consume and use data variants that go beyond typical relational database setups. As technologies like the ...

During the dot-com bubble in the 1990s, one common software stack for web applications was LAMP, which originally stood for Linux (OS), Apache (web server), MySQL (relational database), and PHP ...

AI generates code. AI favors straightforward, free databases like PostgreSQL. Consequently, intricate, costly platforms such ...

Before delving into how MongoDB and Cassandra are different, let's document what they have in common. They're both databases, obviously. More importantly, they are both examples of NoSQL databases.