Getting Started with MongoDB and Ruby

Courtesy Ruby Inside  Tue, 06/30/2009 - 17:45

mongo mapper MongoDB a is a high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database written in C++.

It's sort of a cross between scalable key/value stores and traditional functionality-rich relational databases.

MongoDB might be useful as a fast, simple, non-transactional data store for a web application, or as a caching mechanism.

You don't ever need to worry about migrations due to Mongo's schema-less nature.

Getting started with MongoDB using Ruby is now fairly straightforward thanks to the Mongo Ruby driver ...


 

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