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Name

Description

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Widely used in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine info

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.

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Score	443.56
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	126.82
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mongodb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.mongodb.com/manual

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

MongoDB, Inc

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2009

2000

Current release

4.2.8, June 2020

3.32.2 (June 4, 2020), June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source info

Public Domain

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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MongoDB Atlas: Deploy a fully managed cloud database on-demand and ready for use in minutes. Available on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
ScaleGrid for MongoDB: Fully managed hosting for MongoDB database on AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean with high availability and SSH access on the #1 multi-cloud DBaaS.

Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free info

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector for BI

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC info

inofficial driver
ODBC info

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Actionscript info

inofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure info

inofficial driver
ColdFusion info

inofficial driver
D info

inofficial driver
Dart info

inofficial driver
Delphi info

inofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy info

inofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp info

inofficial driver
Lua info

inofficial driver
MatLab info

inofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell info

inofficial driver
Prolog info

inofficial driver
Python
R info

inofficial driver
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk info

inofficial driver

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose data platform, designed to unleash...
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Competitive advantages

The MongoDB Data Platform can be used by developers building OLTP and analytical...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things and Time Series (Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover) Mobile (The Weather...
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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

70 million downloads (growing at more than 30 thousand downloads per day). 15,000+...
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Licensing and pricing models

MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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