What does MongoDB do?

(MongoDB paid me to write this post. But I was going to write it anyway.)

The TL;DR

MongoDB is a highly popular document database (i.e. NoSQL) for powering your applications.

• Every app (give or take a few) is powered by a production database 

• These days, you can choose between something structured (SQL) or unstructured (NoSQL)

• Document databases are schemaless – you just throw data in, and worry about it later

• MongoDB provides an ecosystem around its document DB – managed services, an IDE, analytics, and search (among other things)