MongoDB database Data Types
MongoDB is a No SQL database that uses document as its data structure to store user's data. MongoDB is a schema-less database in the sense that you do not require to define your fields in advance as well as different structured document can reside in the same collection. This is not possible in case of traditional RDBMS like MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle etc. A document in MongoDB consists of key value pairs. Keys are written as strings but values can belong to one of the several data types allowed in MongoDB. Please always refer to the documentation or online resources for your specific version of MongoDB as an application features are always tend to change. DataType Description String This commonly used datatype contains a string of text (or any other kind of characters). This datatype is used mostly for storing text values (for example, "Country" : "India"}. Integer (32b and 64b) This type is used to store a numerical value (for example, { ...
