tags: 📥️/🔖️/🟥️ publish: true aliases: - The Little MongoDB Book cover: '' general_subject: specific_subject: source: ibooks isbn: doi: url: author: "[[@Karl Seguin]]" guest: publish_date: reviewed_date: ---  ## Highlights - MongoDB is made up of databases which contain collections. A collection is made up of documents. Each document is made up of fields. Collections can be indexed, which improves lookup and sorting performance. - notes:: collections and documents - You might be wondering, why use new terminology (collection vs. table, document vs. row and field vs. column). - notes:: Terminology