Tools You Can Use to Transition to the Cloud- MongoDB
Appropriately named, MongoDB (as in “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database.
MongoDB helps you bridge the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide structured schemas and powerful queries).
Key features of MongoDB include dynamic queries, fast in-place updates, efficient storage of binary data, auto-sharding for cloud-level scalability and MapReduce for complex aggregation. MongoDB is well suited for scenarios like the operational data store of web site infrastructure, data caching, real-time performance counters and problems requiring high scalability or the ability to easily modify fields.
