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0 pointsjd_mongodb3y ago0 comments

MongoDB actually doesn't store JSON. It stores a binary encoding of JSON called BSON (Binary JSON) which encodes type and size information.

This means we can encode objects in your program directly into objects in the database. It also means we can natively encode documents, sub-documents, arrays, geo-spatial coordinates, floats, ints and decimals. This is a primary function of the driver.

This also allows us to efficiently index these fields, even sub-documents and arrays.

All MongoDB collections are compressed on disk by default.

(I work for MongoDB)

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rubyist5eva3y ago

Thanks for the clarification. I appreciate the info, and all-in-all I think MongoDB seems really good these days. Though I did have a lot of problems with earlier versions (which, I acknowledge have mostly been resolved in current versions) that have kinda soured me on the product and I hesitate to reach for it on new projects when Postgres has been rock-solid for me for over a decade. I wish you guys all the best in building Mongo.

Getting back to my main point though, less the bit of sarcasm, is more of a general rule of thumb that has served me well is that if you already have something like postgresql stood up, you can generally take it much further than you may initially think before having to complicate your infrastructure by setting up another database (not just mongodb, but pretty much anything else).

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