Can we store data in MongoDB?

Is MongoDB good for file storage?

Large objects, or "files", are easily stored in MongoDB. It is no problem to store 100MB videos in the database. This has a number of advantages over files stored in a file system. Unlike a file system, the database will have no problem dealing with millions of objects.

What can be stored in MongoDB?

MongoDB stores data records as documents (specifically BSON documents) which are gathered together in collections. A database stores one or more collections of documents.

How does MongoDB store data files?

In MongoDB, use GridFS for storing files larger than 16 MB. In some situations, storing large files may be more efficient in a MongoDB database than on a system-level filesystem. If your filesystem limits the number of files in a directory, you can use GridFS to store as many files as needed.

Where is MongoDB data stored?

By default Mongo stores its data in the directory /data/db . You can specify a different directory using the --dbpath option. If you're running Mongo on Windows then the directory will be C:\data\db , where C is the drive letter of the working directory in which Mongo was started.