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		pjungwir on Sept 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I’ll Give MongoDB Another Try In Ten Years Ah, somewhere along the line I got the impression that in Mongo a "database" and a "collection" were the same thing, but that's not true. Glad to know this was just my mistake!

cheald on Sept 25, 2012 [–]

Nope. Collections are analogous to tables, and documents to rows.

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