Getting started with NoSQL
Terminology
- Document Database
- A type of NoSQL (Not-only SQL) database that stores its data as documents on the file system. MongoDB is a
json document database.
- Database
- Holds one or more collections.
- Collection
- A collection of documents (i.e. a fancy folder). Collections are analogous to tables in relational databases.
- Document
- MongoDB stores data in the form of
json Documents (technically BSON documents). Each document is analagous to a row in a relational database.
Materials
Key Takeaways
- MongoDB is a file database engine. It literally stores its data as a folder (i.e. Collection) of
json files (i.e. Documents).
- Working with MongoDB is a little messy so we use the
mongoose package to:
- use a simpler syntax;
- ensure the documents in a collection have the same structure;
- hide the gritty details like promises and asynchronous things.
