How data is stored in the MongoDB database?

Where is data stored in MongoDB?

Install MongoDB On Windows MongoDB requires a data folder to store its files. The default location for the MongoDB data directory is c:\data\db.

How files are stored in MongoDB?

It is kind of a file system to store files but its data is stored within MongoDB collections. GridFS has the capability to store files even greater than its document size limit of 16MB. GridFS divides a file into chunks and stores each chunk of data in a separate document, each of maximum size 255k.

How data is stored in DBMS and MongoDB?

It means that MongoDB isn't based on the table-like relational database structure but provides an altogether different mechanism for storage and retrieval of data. This format of storage is called BSON ( similar to JSON format). SQL databases store data in tabular format.

How does MongoDB organize data?

MongoDB works by storing data in documents similar to JSON. These documents have one or more fields (objects or values contained within a class or structure) which include arrays (a series of objects all the same size and type) and sub-documents (a document that makes up part of a larger document).