MongoDB which initially released in 2009, is today a name to be reckoned with. It has gained popularity amongst start-ups not just in India but worldwide due to its diverse features. One of its powerful features is Load-Balancing. The Open-Source Database has a feature to balance high-loads of data onto multiple servers which makes this database very lucrative for fast-growing companies who are looking to scale up operations in a very short span of time. In order to scale and balance out the load over various servers using a technique called “Sharding”.

At BIIT Training Institute, we would be learning such techniques as Sharding to better utilise the power of MongoDB. MongoDB has additional features like storing data in collections made out of individual documents versus storing data in tables made out of individual rows like relational database does. MongoDB is a cloud-friendly database that is unlike relational databases thus it is referred to as a NoSQL database. A NoSQL database, is a completely new way of thinking about a database wherein, unlike conventional databases, a NoSQL database does not require vertical or horizontal expansion of servers, to expand as data or processing requirements grow.