Why YOU should be using MongoDB
2 min readOct 21, 2016
MongoDB is an open-source NoSQL database system that was designed to be easy to use and scale. Instead of having tables and rows like a typical Relational Database Management System, MongoDB uses collections to hold documents. You can think of collections as a form of table and documents as records being inserted in a table.
Flexibility
In Mongo, you can save different objects to the same collection that has unique key attributes. This is vastly different from its SQL counterpart, which requires records the be saved in a table and each table…