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Discussion on: Explain MongoDB Like I'm Five

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Natti Katz • Edited

It stores data in 'documents' which are basically key value pairs like json or javascript objects. You can nest objects in objects and query them in interesting ways.

Basically instead of flattening everything out to tables or saving objects as strings, you can store objects like how they appear natively in a js app