MongoDB is an open-source document-oriented database, not a traditional relational database, written in C++ by Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz. Being a document database does not mean storing ...

MongoDB initially gained traction as a backend for web applications, in which it was mostly concerned with so-called “CRUD” operations—creating, reading, updating, and deleting documents. Since then, ...

Throughout the 2000s, a huge number of website developers rejected the Enterprise Java or .NET platforms for web development in favor of the “LAMP” stack – Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP.