AWS continues to expand its serverless database offerings, aiming to help improve cost and lower operational complexity.

However, you might not be using the right tools for the job. MongoDB field CTO Rick Houlihan experimented and found vast performance gains when using a document database over a relational one.

MongoDB operates a NoSQL document-based architecture database. The company embraces a “run anywhere” strategy, where MongoDB can be “fully managed as-a-service or self-managed in the cloud ...

Using NoSQL—and particularly document databases—for building custom content-driven applications gives the flexibility not only to store a wide variety of content but also to provide fast ...

At its core, MongoDB stands out for its ability to address the limitations of traditional relational databases. While relational database systems (RDBMS) dominate the market, with over 72% share ...

Almost all of the 'NoSQL' databases today support some form of SQL interface in order to leverage the multitude of SQL-based BI tools and the wealth of SQL expertise in the data analytics market. This ...

In addition to DynamoDB, Aerospike is beginning to compete with MongoDB, the uber-popular open source document database that has been adopted by many Web and mobile developers for its ease of use.

Document databases are considered to be non-relational (or NoSQL) databases. Instead of storing data in fixed rows and columns, document databases use flexible documents.

We believe MongoDB is considered the premier document-based DB, with extremely rich features—from in-database data transformation to instant interoperability on multiple cloud platforms.