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JSON or JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange. Conventions used by JSON are known to programmers, which include C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, etc. JSON stands for  JavaScript Object Notation. The format was specified by  Douglas Crockford. It was designed for  human-readable  data interchange. It has been extended from the JavaScript scripting language. The filename extension is  .json . JSON Internet Media type is application/json. The Uniform Type Identifier is  public.json . Uses of JSON It is used while writing JavaScript based applications that includes browser extensions and websites. JSON format is used for serializing and transmitting structured data over network connection. It is primarily used to transmit data between a server and web applications. Web services and APIs use JSON format to provide public data. It can be used with modern programming l...

MongoDB MongoDB (from humongous) is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program . Classified as a NoSQL database program , MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with schemas. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc. and is free and open-source, published under a combination of the GNU Affero General Public License and the Apache License. Any relational database has a typical schema design that shows number of tables and the relationship between these tables. While in MongoDB, there is no concept of relationship. Document Database A record in MongoDB is a document, which is a data structure composed of field and value pairs. MongoDB documents are similar to JSON objects. The values of fields may include other documents, arrays, and arrays of documents. Following is the example of MongoDB document  Following are some advantages of using document database Documents correspond to native data types in many programming languages. Embedded documents and...