MongoDB supports rich documents that can include, among other things, embedded documents. This feature embodies a has-a relationship quite nicely and can, if modeled properly, reduce the number of ...

It's understandable that those new to MongoDB - a so-called 'schema free' database - might assume that they no longer need to be concerned with the art-science of data modeling. However, in reality ...

Figure 1. MongoDB document store IDG. The flexibility inherit in this type of data modeling means that data can be handled on a more as-use-demands basis, enabling performance benefits as ...

One of MongoDB's first customers to use the new technology is Apervita, a vendor that handles confidential data for well over 2,000 hospitals and nearly 2 million individual patients.

MongoDB is also JSON-centric and supports time series data. “We are able to identify the patient profile because of the master data management concepts that can be applied in MongoDB,” he stated.