MongoDB
More info
- Creator
- Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, Kevin Ryan
- Released
- Owner
- MongoDB Inc.
- Type
- Document database
- License
- SSPL
- Website
- mongodb.com
- Source
- github.com/mongodb/mongo
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
The best-known document database — stores BSON (binary JSON), schemaless, horizontally scalable.
The "move fast" era around 2012. Backlash over data safety ("MongoDB lost my data") — modern versions are much better. Good for: flexible schemas, JSON-heavy workloads. Postgres+JSONB is often the competitor.