Comparison Between MongoDB vs SQL
What is MongoDB ?
MongoDB is one of the most popular document-oriented databases under the banner of NoSQL database. It was developed from an idea in 2007 and its first version was released in 2010. It is developed and maintained by MongoDB Inc. MongoDB is designed to store a large scale of data and also allows you to work with that data very efficiently.
It is a non-relational and document-oriented database.It is suitable for hierarchical data storage.It has a dynamic schema.It centers around the CAP theorem (Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance).
Features of MongoDB :
- Schema-less Database
- Document Oriented
- Indexing
- Scalability
- Replication
- Aggregation
- High Performance
Advantages of MongoDB :
- It is a schema-less NoSQL database. You need not to design the schema of the database when you are working with MongoDB.
- It provides great flexibility to the fields in the documents.
- It contains heterogeneous data.
- It provides high performance, availability, scalability.
- It supports Geospatial efficiently.
- It is a document oriented database and the data is stored in BSON documents.
- It does not require any SQL injection.
- It is easily integrated with Big Data Hadoop
Disadvantages of MongoDB :
- It uses high memory for data storage.
- You are not allowed to store more than 16MB data in the documents.
- The nesting of data in BSON is also limited you are not allowed to nest data more than 100 levels.
What is MySQL ?
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system RDBMS. It was originally built by MySQL AB though presently owned by Oracle.It employs the concept of storing data in rows and tables which are further classified into the database. It uses Structured Query Language SQL to access and transfer the data and commands such as “SELECT’, ‘UPDATE’, ‘INSERT’ and ‘DELETE’ to manage it.
Features of MySQL :
- Easy to use
- It is secure
- Client/ Server Architecture
- Free to download
- It is scalable
- Speed
- High Flexibility
- High Productivity
- GUI Support
Advantages of MySQL :
- Fast and high Performance database.
- Easy to use, maintain and administer.
- Easily available and maintain integrity of database.
- Provides scalability, usability and reliability.
- Low cost hardware.
- MySQL can read simple and complex queries and write operations.
- InnoDB is default and widely used storage engine.
- Provides strong indexing support.
- Provides SSL support for secured connections.
- Provides powerful data encryption and accuracy.
- Provides Cross-platform compatibility.
- Provides minimized code repetition.
Disadvantages of MySQL :
- MySQL does not support a very large database size as efficiently.
- MySQL doesn’t handle transactions very efficiently, and it is prone to data corruption.
- MySQL is accused that it doesn’t have a good developing and debugging tool compared to paid databases.
- MySQL doesn’t support SQL check constraints.
Conclusion
- SQL databases are used to store structured data while NoSQL databases like MongoDB are used to save unstructured data.
- MongoDB is used to save unstructured data in JSON format.
- MongoDB does not support advanced analytics and joins like SQL databases support.
In this article we saw the comparison between MongoDB vs SQL.
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