This document provides an introduction to MongoDB, including what it is, why it may be used, and how its data model works. Some key points:
- MongoDB is a non-relational database that stores data in flexible, JSON-like documents rather than fixed schema tables.
- It offers advantages like dynamic schemas, embedding of related data, and fast performance at large scales.
- Data is organized into collections of documents, which can contain sub-documents to represent one-to-many relationships without joins.
- Queries use JSON-like syntax to search for patterns in documents, and indexes can improve performance.