MongoDB is an open source, document-oriented database designed with both scalability and developer agility in mind. Instead of storing your data in tables and rows as you would with a relational database, in MongoDB you store JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas. The goal of MongoDB is to bridge the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and scalable) and relational databases (which have rich functionality).

PHP and MongoDB are a perfect match. Many PHP applications can benefit from MongoDB's ease of use; from its schemaless, document storage engine to a powerful query language. MongoDB is easy to scale and use making it a perfect companion to web applications written in PHP. 10gen (the initiator, contributor and continual sponsor of MongoDB) supports the development of the MongoDB PHP driver.

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